Catholic Daily Readings 10th February

"So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field.
And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:
And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
But one tribe shall remain to him for the sake of my servant, David, and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:
And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were all Israel come together to make him king.
But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of Egypt.
And they sent and called him: and Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:
Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now, therefore, do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,
King Roboam took counsel with the old men, that stood before Solomon, his father, while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people?
They said to him: If thou wilt yield to this people to day, and condescend to them, and grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle words to them, they will be thy servants always.
But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that had been brought up with him, and stood before him.
And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father put upon us, lighter?
And the young men that had been brought up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to this people, who have spoken to thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou shalt say to them: My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.
And now my father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to your yoke: my father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
So Jeroboam, and all the people, came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.
And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.
And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.
Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.
But as for all the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over them.
Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:
And Israel revolted from the house of David, unto this day."
1 Kings 11.29-32;12.19


"There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them."
Psalm 81.10-11,12-13,14-15

"And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst the of the coasts of Decapolis.
And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.
And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.
And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.
And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.
And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak."
Mark 7.31-37