January 17 - Saturday of the 1st Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(1Sm.9:1-4,17-19,10:1; Ps.21:2-7; Mk.2:13-17) "You are to govern the Lord's people Israel, and to save them from the grasp of their enemies round about." Tall and handsome, Saul gives every appearance of a king. And so God gives the people what they want in this "handsome young man" who "stood head and shoulders above the people." But with Saul the Lord shall indeed prove that it is not upon appearances He gazes. In the failure of Saul's reign will be revealed the emptiness of such outward attraction and our proclivity to desire what is appealing to the eye. For Saul shall not prove to be…
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