“Oh, how I would like you to know the range of this enterprise, its greatness, its breadth, its depth, its height” (Message of God the Father to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
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The supplicatory prayer and the vow
1 Sam 1:9-20 (Reading from the Novus Ordo)
When they had finished eating in the room, Hannah got up and stood before Yahweh. Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh. In the bitterness of her soul she prayed to Yahweh with many tears, and she made this vow, ‘Yahweh Sabaoth! Should you condescend to notice the humiliation of your servant and keep her in mind instead of disregarding your servant, and give her a boy, I will give him to Yahweh for the whole of his life and no razor shall ever touch his head.’ While she went on praying to Yahweh, Eli was watching her mouth, for Hannah was speaking under her breath; her lips were moving but her voice could not be heard, and Eli thought that she was drunk.