Daily Readings

Reading I Hosea 6:1-6 “Come, let us return to the LORD,     it is he who has rent, but he will heal us;     he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. He will revive us after two days;     on the third day he will raise us up,     to live in his presence. Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD;     as certain as the dawn is his coming,     and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain,     like spring rain that waters the earth.” What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud,     like the dew that early passes away. For this reason I smote them through the prophets,     I slew them by the words of my mouth; For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice,     and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Reading 1 Jeremiah 7:23-28 Thus says the LORD: This is what I commanded my people: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper. But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers. When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either; when you call to them, they will not answer you. Say to them: This is the nation that does not listen to the voice of the LORD, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 R. (8) If t