--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/09/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/09/10 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2010/07/09/daily-readings-reflection-for-70910#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 7/09/10 Jul 9, 2010 9:00:33 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Hosea's final chapters help us to seek God. We do this by listening to the prophet's call to repent and to renew ourselves as he said in one of the images in Hosea 10:12: "Sow for yourselves justice, reap the fruit of piety; break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain down justice upon you." We are to sow according to the rules of justice and mercy. This verse is a call to a firm purpose of amendment in our repentance. It is the rule of holiness that is to be sown. "This is essential preparatory work if a harvest is to be expected. Translated from its agricultural application into general terms, the phrase corresponds to the modern expression 'Turn over a new leaf.' (Rabbi Dr.S.M. Lehrman). When we truly turn over a new leaf then blessings, graces, and peace follow. God patiently waits for our return to him. Hosea, our prophet, has pointed out our failures and confronted us with them. Now is the time to correct our relationships with one another and to practice the commandment of love. Hosea is moving away from the negative prophesies to the more positive ones; from the curse implications to the blessings. Presupposed is our effort to be open to the prophetic voice of Hosea and the other social justice prophets among the twelve. Our misguided and untoward attitudes and judgments about others are to cease. Justice is righteousness in our relationships with God, neighbor, and ourselves. Matthew relates how Jesus teaches his disciples about the opposition and rejection they will suffer on account of his name. We too will suffer persecution in some form or another--perhaps by prejudice against our Christian way of life and lack of accepting our religious values in a very secular mindset of many people. The narrative that is proclaimed today helps us to understand the longest and the hardest of the beatitudes that Jesus has given us in his Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteous sake (justice), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (cf. Matthew 5:10-11). Our narrative helps us to see what is involved in being persecuted and how we are to react to it. Mother Teresa handed down these words of wisdom when we feel buffeted, rebuked, or rejected. "I know God will not give me anything that I cannot handle, I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much." 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