First Reading
Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
1Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the crowd of his fruit he has multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he has abounded with idols.
2Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.
3For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?
7Samaria has made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.
8And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.
12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you righteousness.