7/30/11 INNOCENT BLOOD CRIES OUT FOR JUSTICE

7/30/11 cblog INNOCENT BLOOD CRIES OUT FOR JUSTICE; st jbap 8a asian m: "herod was afraid of john ...john became more intimidating after he was killed..brings to mind my vietnam..people would say an innocent gal died an unjust death ..people afraid mor so after the death ..look deeper..a sense of justice..innocent blood cries out for justice..when innocent people die unjustly, need for justice to be addressed..god puts this sense of justice in us..innate ...and who will render justice to all..he will render justice to st. Jbap & all ..that is displayed in 1st reading when all property returned to orig owner..jubilee...our god is a god of justice..for evildoers..but if repent, the justice of god is forgiveness
& reconc...if we have done wrong knowingly or otherwise, we come to god w repentance..forgiv & reconc..how beautiful to know god, to b w him..he will render justice"

Lv 25:1, 8-17 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years– so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo throughout your land. This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property, every one to his own family estate In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines. Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you, you may not eat of its produce, except as taken directly from the field“In this year of jubilee, then every one of you shall return to his own property. Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly. On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee shall you purchase the land from your n

ed vines. Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you, you may not eat of its produce, except as taken directly from the field“In this year of jubilee, then every one of you shall return to his own property. Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly. On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee shall you purchase the land from your

neighbor; and so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops, shall he sell it to you. When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less For it is really the number of crops that he sells you. Do not deal unfairly, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the LORD, am your God.” R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you! May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth;

ed us. May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him R. O God, let all the nations praise you!

"Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Now Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, for John had said to him,“It is not lawful for you to have her.” Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people, for they regarded him as a prophet. But at a birthday celebration for Herod the daughter of Herodias performed a dance before the guests and delighted Herod so much that he swore to give her whatever she might ask for. Prompted by her mother, she said“Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests who were present, he ordered that it be given, and he had John beheaded in the prison. His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who took it to her mother. His disciples came and to
away the corpse and buried him; and they went and told Jesus"