Daily Reading for Sunday January 17, 2021 FIRST READING "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening" from the first book of Samuel (3, 3b-10.19)

Daily Reading for Sunday January 17, 2021 

FIRST READING 

"Speak, Lord, your servant is listening" 

from the first book of Samuel (3, 3b-10.19) 

In those days, young Samuel was lying in the temple of the Lord at Shiloh, where the ark of God was. The Lord called Samuel, who replied, “Here I am! He ran to the priest Eli, and he said, "You called me, here I am. Eli replied: "I did not call. Go back to bed. The child went to bed. Again the Lord called Samuel. And Samuel stood up. He went to Eli, and he said, “You called me, here I am. Eli replied: "I did not call, my son. Go back to bed. Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

Again the Lord called Samuel. The latter stood up. He went to Eli, and he said, “You called me, here I am. Then Eli understood that it was the Lord who was calling the child, and he said to him: "Go back to bed, and if he calls you, you will say:" Speak, Lord, your servant is listening. " Samuel went to bed again in his usual place. The Lord came, he stood there and he called like the other times: “Samuel! Samuel! And Samuel answered, "Speak, your servant is listening." "

Samuel grows. The Lord was with him, and he left none of his words ineffective. 

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