July 27 - Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.13:1-11; Dt.32:18-21; Mt.13:31-35) "You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you. You forgot the God who gave you birth." So Moses says of the people he led through the desert. So Jeremiah is told of the Lord's chosen at the time of the Babylonian exile. So it is with those who are deaf to Jesus' parables. And so we, too, forget the Lord whenever we turn from Him in sin. So close were the Lord's children to Him and His blessings: "As close as the loincloth clings to a man's loins, so had I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the Lord." The God…
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