Saints
Daily Readings:
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First Reading
2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15, 18
5Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it. 6In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7And this was so, because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced. 13Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets." 14But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them. 18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only. -
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 60:3-5, 12-13
1O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us. 2Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters. 3Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel. 10Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies. 11O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man! -
Gospel
Matthew 7:1-5
1"Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
