First Reading
Hosea 11:1-4, 8e-9
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.
1As the morning passeth, so has the king of Israel Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.
2As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.
3And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.
4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love$1 and I will be to them as one that takes off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his food to him that he might eat.