Catholic Daily Reading 17th August 2012

"Eze 16:59  For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
Eze 16:60  And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting

covenant.
Eze 16:61  And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger:

and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Eze 16:62  And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,
Eze 16:63  That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I

shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God."
Ezekiel 16:59-63

"Isa 12:2  Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my

praise, and he is become my salvation.
Isa 12:3  Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's fountains:
Isa 12:4  And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make his works known among the people:

remember that his name is high.
Isa 12:5  Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this forth in all the earth.
Isa 12:6  Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of

Israel."
Isaiah 12:2-6

"Mat 19:3  And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every

cause?
Mat 19:4  Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?

And he said:
Mat 19:5  For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one

flesh.
Mat 19:6  Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
Mat 19:7  They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?
Mat 19:8  He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but

from the beginning it was not so.
Mat 19:9  And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another,

committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.
Mat 19:10  His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.
Mat 19:11  Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.
Mat 19:12  For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men:

and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it."
Matthew 19:3-12