July 23 - Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.2:1-3,7-8,12-13; Ps.36:6-11; Mt.13:10-17) "They look but do not see, they listen but do not hear or understand." Oh how "sacred to the Lord was Israel, the first fruits of His harvest." And oh how they loved the Lord "as a bride," following Him so closely. But oh how they have forgotten "the devotion of their youth" and turned from Him. For when He "brought [them] into the garden lands to eat its goodly fruits," they did not seek Him from whom all their blessings flowed, but rather "entered and defiled [His] land," and "made [His] heritage loathsome." So blindly "they have forsaken [the…
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