July 10 - Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Hos.14:2-10; Ps.51:3-4,8-9,12-14,17; Mt.10:16-23) "O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise." Hosea instructs the Israelites, "Take with you words, and return to the Lord," and this David does in his psalm of sorrow. In "sincerity of heart" he begs the Lord's forgiveness for his sin and finds that the Lord creates "a clean heart" for him. "In [Him] the orphan finds compassion," and so the humbled king receives the Lord's cleansing grace. Because the Lord does "forgive all iniquity, and receive[s] what is good," so we find that Hosea's prophecy – "He shall strike root…
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