Friends, we commence now with the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, and our first reading is one of my favorites in the Old Testament: the account, in the First Book of Samuel, of the call of Samuel, who as a young man hears the voice of the Lord for the first time. In the history of salvation, in the lives of the saints, occasionally God really does speak in a voice that can be heard, but I think what’s being described here is the word of God in the voice of the conscience, and what to do when we hear it.
Mass Readings
- Reading 1 — 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19
- Psalm — Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10
- Reading 2 — 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20
- Gospel — Jn 1:35-42