Catholic Daily Reading 25th June 2012

"And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.
And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he

placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord, their God, who brought them out of the land

of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they worshipped strange gods.
And they walked according to the way of the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the sight of the children of

Israel, and of the kings of Israel: because they had done in like manner.
And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return

from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as

I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.
And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord,

their God.
And they rejected his ordinances, and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he

testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about

them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.
And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his sight, and there remained only the tribe of

Juda."
2 Kings 17.5-8,13-15,18

"O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.
Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.
Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow."
Psalm 60.3-5,12-13

"Judge not, that you may not be judged.
For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you

again.
And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?
Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy

brother's eye."
Matthew 7.1-5