Iulii 9, 2014

The Book of the Prophet Hosea 11:1-4, 8-9

11:1Just as the morning passes, so has the king of Israel passed by. For Israel was a child and I loved him; and out of Egypt I called my son.
11:2They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images.
11:3And I was like a foster father to Ephraim. I carried them in my arms. And they did not know that I healed them.
11:4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love. And I will be to them like one who raises the yoke over their jaws. And I will reach down to him so that he may eat.
11:8How will I provide for you, Ephraim; how will I protect you, Israel? How will I provide for you as for Adam; will I set you like Zeboiim? My heart has changed within me; together with my regret, it has been stirred up.
11:9I will not act on the fury of my wrath. I will not turn back to utterly destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Divine in your midst, and I will not advance upon the city.

Lectio sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum 10: 1-7

10:1Et surgens, inde venit in fines Iudaeae trans Iordanem. Et iterum, conveniebant turbae coram eo. Et sicut consueverat facere, iterum docuit eos.
10:2Et appropinquans, Pharisaei interrogabant eum, temptantes eum: "Licet viro uxorem dimittere"?"
10:3Sed in responsione, dixit illis, "Quid praecepit tibi Moses??"
10:4At illi dixerunt, Moyses dedit libellum repudii scribere et dimittere eam.
10:5Iesus autem respondit dicens: Ob duritiem cordis vestri scripsit vobis praeceptum illud.
10:6Sed ab initio creaturae, Deus masculum et feminam fecit eos.
10:7Quod huius, relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem, et adhærebit uxori suae.