Father David's Reflection for Tuesday of Week Two (Ordinary Time)
I have found David my servant. (Responsorial: Psalm 89) 1 Samuel 16: 1-13 tells how God chose David to replace Saul, to whom Samuel said that, had he obeyed, “The LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.” But God called David “a man after his own heart,” and never rejected him. Why? David raped the wife of a faithful officer, and ordered him murdered in a shameful way to cover up his crime. Was Saul’s sin worse than that? 1 David broke God’s law in a wa