9 July 2026 – Thursday of the 14th even-numbered week
Hosea 11:1–4, 8c–9; Matthew 10:7–15
H o m i l y
What Yahweh says about His people Israel in the beautiful passage from Hosea that we have just heard as the first reading can just as easily apply to each of us as individuals or to us as a community. ‘When Israel was a child, I loved him.’ God loved us first, showing us a love as tender as that of a mother for her son, or of a wet nurse for her infant.