Return, Israel, to the LORD, your God;
you have stumbled because of your iniquity. (Hosea 14:2 NABRE)
Written about 2,700 years ago, the words of Hosea the prophet call the Lord's people back to him. They had strayed far from trust in him and had begun to rely on treaties and foreign governments for their security. As God's people, let us challenge ourselves. Let us look inward, as individuals, and as a society, and ask ourselves, do we place our trust in God? Or have we stumbled into patterns of unfair and immoral behavior, both privately and publicly? Let us challenge ourselves not only to look inward and judge ourselves with brutal honesty, but also to change our ways by reaffirming our trust in God, by our words and by our choices.
Today, I will treat others fairly as a sign that I am returning my heart to the Lord.
Saint Casimir, patron of Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, pray for us.
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