Monday – 2nd Week in Ordinary Time – A
In today's Mass, we come across a reading which has perplexed many a good Catholic, in that it speaks of the extermination of an entire people, the Amalekites. And when we look at this passage, at first, of course we buckle, right? How could the God who has now commanded us to love our enemy, have commanded Saul the king, through his prophet Samuel, to destroy the Amalekites? And it does ring bitter in our logical minds.