Gospel of 25 June 2018

Monday of the XII week of Ordinary Time holidays

Second book of Kings 17,5-8.13-15a.18.
In those days, Salmanassar, king of Assyria invaded the whole country, went to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
In the ninth year of Hosea the king of Assyria occupied Samaria, deported the Israelites to Assyria, sending them to Chelach, to the area around Cabòr, Gozan river, and to the cities of Media.
This happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, freeing them from the power of the pharaoh king of Egypt; they had feared other gods.
They had followed the practices of the populations destroyed by the Lord upon the arrival of the Israelites and those introduced by the kings of Israel.
Yet the Lord, through all his prophets and seers, had ordered Israel and Judah: “Get converted from your wicked ways and keep my commands and decrees according to every law, which I have imposed on your fathers and which I have made to say to you through my servants, the prophets ”.
But they did not listen, rather they hardened the nape making it similar to that of their fathers, who had not believed in the Lord their God.
They rejected his decrees and the covenants he had made with their fathers, and the testimonies he had given them; they followed the vanities and they too became fatuous, in imitation of the peoples near them, of which the Lord had commanded not to imitate the customs.
This is why the Lord became very angry against Israel and turned him away from his presence and remained only the tribe of Judah.

Salmi 60(59),3.4-5.12-13.
God, you have rejected us, you have scattered us;
you are angry: return to us.

You shook the earth, you ripped it apart,
heal his fractures, because he collapses.
You have inflicted severe trials on your people,
you made us drink dizzy wine.

Not perhaps you, O God, who rejected us,
and no longer go out, O God, with our hosts?
In oppression come to our aid
because the salvation of man is vain.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 7,1-5.
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: «Do not judge, so as not to be judged;
because with the judgment with which you judge you will be judged, and with the measure with which you measure you will be measured.
Why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you don't notice the beam in your eye?
Or how can you say to your brother: do you allow him to remove the straw from your eye, while the beam is in your eye?
Hypocrite, first remove the beam from your eye and then you will see us well to remove the straw from your brother's eye ».