So let's talk about today's readings 1/11/10

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Reading I
1 Sm 1:1-8
There was a certain man from Ramathaim, Elkanah by name,
a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim.
He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu,
son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah;
Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
This man regularly went on pilgrimage from his city
to worship the LORD of hosts and to sacrifice to him at Shiloh,
where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
were ministering as priests of the LORD.
When the day came for Elkanah to offer sacrifice,
he used to give a portion each to his wife Peninnah
and to all her sons and daughters,
but a double portion to Hannah because he loved her,
though the LORD had made her barren.
Her rival, to upset her, turned it into a constant reproach to her
that the LORD had left her barren.
This went on year after year;
each time they made their pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the LORD,
Peninnah would approach her,
and Hannah would weep and refuse to eat.
Her husband Elkanah used to ask her:
“Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you refuse to eat?
Why do you grieve?
Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

Responsorial Psalm
116:12-13, 14-17, 18-19
R. (17a) To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise. or:
R. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.
or:
R. Alleluia.

Gospel

Mk 1:14-20
After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment.
The Kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
As he passed by the Sea of Galilee,
he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;
they were fishermen.
Jesus said to them,
“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Then they left their nets and followed him.
He walked along a little farther
and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John.

They too were in a boat mending their nets.
Then he called them.
So they left their father Zebedee in the boat
along with the hired men and followed him.
 
Welcome to the first day in ordinary time 🙂

The readings start at the beginning of the book of Mark
the beginning of the book of Samuel,
and, had we been in
year 1 instead of
year 2, they would
have started at the beginning of the book of Hebrews.

Isn’t the beginning a great place to start?

“He had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah”
– Well what a way to start off our first day in ordinary time. Why does Elkanah have
2 wives, especially if he only loves one of them? Is this ordinary? Then, he has
the nerve to say "Why do you grieve? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
Now why should he be so wonderful in her eyes? Is he not the one who
married another woman? And a mean one at that!

“How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good he has done for me?”
– Sometimes bad or sad things happen don’t they? Those are the times when
we “make a sacrifice of praise”. We are hurting, yet we refuse to stop praising
our God, for His sacrifice to us.

“they left their nets and followed him”
– this story makes it sound like He was a stranger to them, but they probably
saw Him be baptized by John, and they might have already seen Him in the
synagogue in Nazareth. In fact, the book of Luke makes it look like He already
cured Peter’s mother-in-law before He called them to be disciples. So I would
say they didn’t exactly follow Him immediately, they needed to be invited first,
even thought they believed John the Baptist about Him. and Jesus came right
into their workplace! Has anyone thought what that would be like if Jesus came
into your workplace and said to you “follow Me”…

So what struck you about today’s readings? :bible1::twocents:
 
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