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Prophecy isn't the problem. Absence is.

There is something about Samuel's story that feels especially relevant for the Church right now. When the word of the Lord was rare, it wasn't a lack of information — it was a lack of presence.
Sunday, Jan. 14, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The first reading speaks to us of ...