January 24 - Saturday of the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(2Sm.1:1-4,11-12,19,23-27; Ps.80:2-7; Mk.3:20-21) “They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan.” For David’s leading his men in mourning for Saul, it might have been said of him what was said of Jesus: “He is out of His mind.” But even to the end David proves himself sincere in his respect for God’s anointed, even slaying the man who claims to have dispatched the king upon Saul’s request (after he had dealt himself a mortal wound). David is not anxious to claim the throne for himself, as so many around him suppose he should be. Like Christ, he does not grasp…
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