Chapter 1: What is the purpose of Daily Mass readings?
Thank you for listening to these daily Mass readings. This episode is brought to you by the Mission Circle, a community that helps Catholics understand, live, and share their faith. To become a member, click on the link in the description below. A reading from the book of Prophet Hosea Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Take with you words, and return to the Lord. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, except that which is good, and we will render the fruit of our lips. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, and we will say no more, Our God, to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy. I will heal their faithlessness. I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily. He shall strike root as the poplar. His shoots shall spread out.
Chapter 2: What message does the Prophet Hosea convey in today's reading?
His beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow. They shall flourish as a garden. They shall blossom as the vine. Their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon. O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress. From me comes your fruit.
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things. Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them. But transgressors stumble in them. Psalm 81 I hear a voice I had not known. I relieved your shoulder of the burden. Your hands were freed from the basket. In distress you called, and I delivered you.
I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you. O Israel, if you would but listen to me. There shall be no strange god among you. You shall not bow down to a foreign god. I am the Lord your God. who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways.
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another. And seeing that Jesus answered them well, asked him, Jesus answered,
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said to him, You are right, teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he.
And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength and to love one's neighbor as oneself is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And after that, no one dared to ask him any question.
What is the Lord saying to you today through these scriptures? What can you now say to the Lord in response to His word? What conversion of mind, heart, and life is the Lord asking of you today? spend a few moments in silence, resting in the presence of the Lord. Nourished by God's word, what is one specific way that you can go forth and make your life a gift for others?
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Amen. Thank you for listening to these daily Mass readings. This episode is brought to you by the Mission Circle, a community that helps Catholics understand, live, and share their faith. To become a member, click on the link in the description below.
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