1 Samuel 1:10

• §2578Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

  “At first the leaders of the people - the shepherds and the prophets - teach them to pray. the infant Samuel must have learned from his mother Hannah how "to stand before the LORD" and from the priest Eli how to listen to his word: "Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Sam 3:9-10; cf. 1:9-18.

Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 7

  “Thus a God-ward fast is a work of reverential awe: and by its means also Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit, barren as she had been beforetime, easily obtained from God the filling of her belly, empty of food, with a son, ay, and a prophet.” — editor's note: See 1 Sam. i. 1, 2, 7–20; iii. 20 (in LXX. 1 Kings).

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Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 20

  “Why, Anna even before Samuel was born promised him to God, and after his birth consecrated him at once, and brought him up in the priestly habit, not fearing anything in human nature, but trusting in God.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 10.

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• 1 Samuel 3:9

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.

• 1 Samuel 3:10

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.

• 1 Samuel 12:23

  Cited together in Catechism §2578.