Hosea 4:6 begins, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”  Upon entering the city, Christ condemns Jerusalem saying, “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.”   And in the epistle, St. Paul states, “Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”  Do we, the Church, know the Word of God written very well?  Do we know the Word of God Incarnate very well?  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Propers   Manuscript