52 SAINT FAUSTINA KOWALSKA ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS FOR THE READINGS FOR SAINT FAUSTINA FIRST READING Hosea 2:16bc, 17cd, 21-22 A covenant with God in mercy and fidelity. A reading from the Book of the Prophet Hosea Thus says the LORD: I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt. I will espouse you to me forever: I will espouse you in right and in justice, in love and in mercy; I will espouse you in fidelity, and you shall know the LORD. The word of the Lord. Or: Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8e-9 I drew them with human cords, with bands of love. A reading from the Book of the Prophet Hosea The LORD says: When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms; I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like one who raises an infant to his cheeks; Yet, though I stooped to feed my child, they did not know that I was their healer.
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