how can your warriors fall

January 23, 2010

Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I

2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27

How can the warriors have fallen–

in the thick of the battle,

slain upon your heights!

“I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother!

most dear have you been to me;

more precious have I held love for you than love for women.

“How can the warriors have fallen,

the weapons of war have perished!”

Responsorial Psalm

80:2-3, 5-7

R. (4b) Let us see your face, Lord, and we shall be saved.

O shepherd of Israel, hearken,

O guide of the flock of Joseph!

From your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth

before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.

Rouse your power,

and come to save us.

Gospel

Mk 3:20-21

Jesus came with his disciples into the house.

Again the crowd gathered,

making it impossible for them even to eat.

Reflection

Lord, Jesus, I fail everyday like young Jonathan. I can hear the cry of my friends and elders who weep over my fall.

Lord, Jesus my friend and my saviour, help me in my shame. I feel as if I went down to the sheol. Save me Lord from that abyss.