23 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2025
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgical colour: Green
Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries
FIRST READING
Samuel 26:2.7-9.12-13.22-23
The Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord’s anointed.
A reading from the first Book of Samuel
In those days: Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, with three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. So David and Abishai went to the army by night; and there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay around him. Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless?” So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them. Then David went over to the other side, and stood afar off on the top of the mountain, with a great space between them. And David said, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and fetch it. The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD gave
you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD’S anointed.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God
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