This reading can be used when it is not the Easter season.
Summary: True worship does not need lavish offerings. Instead, God calls us to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with him.
With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow before God most high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil?
Shall I give my first-born for my crime, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you:
Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.