Tuesday, January 17, 2012 {St. Anthony, Abbot (Memorial)}

REFLECTION FOR TODAY
The patient and humble endurance of the Cross - whatever nature it may be - is the highest work we have to do.
-- St Katherine Drexel

READINGS FOR TODAY
First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1-13
(David Is Anointed King)
1 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.