1 Samuel 1:17

• §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.

Jerome

• Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 2

  “…kings, by fasting and wearing sackcloth, succeeded in escaping the sentence of God, and in deferring the overthrow of his house to the days of his posterity.Hannah, the wife of Elkanah, by fasting won the gift of a son.At Babylon the magicians came into peril, every interpreter of dreams, soothsayer, and diviner was…” — editor's note: 1 Sam. i. 15, 17.

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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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• 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.