MASS READINGS, FRIDAY 11 JUNE 2021
FIRST READING
"My heart turns against me"
A Reading from the book of the prophet Hosea (11, 1.3-4.8c-9)
Thus says the Lord: Yea, I loved Israel from his infancy, and to bring them out of Egypt I called my son. It was I who taught him to walk, supporting him with my arms, and he did not understand that I was coming to his aid. I guided him with humanity, by bonds of love; I treated him like an infant lifted up against his cheek; I leaned over to feed him. But they refused to come back to me: will I deliver them to punishment?
No ! My heart turns against me; at the same time, my insides quiver. I will not act according to the fierceness of my anger, nor will I destroy Israel any more, for I am God, and not man: in the midst of you I am the holy God, and I do not come to exterminate.
- Word of the Lord.
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