Sister Kateri Theriault Mission Integration
Many of us associate the prophet Hosea with the sweet-sounding song “Come Back to Me.” His life, however, was anything but sugar-coated. He challenged the people of Israel, seduced by false gods, by allowing his own life to become the medium of his message. By God’s instruction Hosea married a prostitute, and, though she abandoned him for other men, he kept loving her, sought her out, forgave her, and brought her back. He warned the leaders of his day to stop prostituting themselves and assured them of God’s enduring mercy. He allowed his very life to mirror the mercy of God. In some real way the life of every Christian must reflect the one who commanded, “Love one another.”
TODAY’S READINGS: Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13; Matthew 9:32-38 (384)
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.”
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