For in Lent we remember that the road to Jerusalem led not only to the triumph of Palm Sunday and the poignancy of that Thursday evening supper in the Upper Room, but also through the sacrifice on the cross. Our reading today is from the Gospel according to Luke. It is an incident which frames the beginning of Jesus ministry, his mission statement, if you will.
Justice always requires help.
This is one of the messages of our Scripture reading today. Justice does not happen by itself, justice will not arrive just because it is in the air or because fate will have it so. Justice requires help. Picture, if you will, a warm, breezy night on the Caribbean Sea in the year of our Lord 1839. A fine night for sailing.