A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him.

SAINT HILARY, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him. Under Jewish law, a person with leprosy wasn’t supposed to approach another person without a warning that he was coming. Yet the man in today’s Gospel...

He could not see.

1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME He could not see.  If Samuel’s calling were made into a film, an overhead camera might pan across the land of Israel and zoom in on the shrine at Shiloh, where the priest Eli lay asleep in an exterior room. Meanwhile, a voice-over would say...

I was only pouring out my troubles to the Lord.

1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I was only pouring out my troubles to the Lord.  “Don’t make a scene!” You might whisper this when you are in a quiet public setting and a companion starts displaying too much emotion. That is what the priest Eli said to Hannah, thinking she...

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