2 Sam
6:1-5,12b-19; Ps 24; Eph 1: 3-14; MARK 6: 14-29
In the name of God who created
us…now & always. AMEN
…”for Herod feared John, knowing he
was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him. When he heard him, he was
greatly perplexed, and yet he liked to listen to him.” Then the whole sorry
story unfolds. Here are the homilies usually preached on this scripture, ones
I’m not going to preach — remember that’s caller praeteritio — The
Hebrew Scripture, a fine story, shows David leaping, dancing and making burnt
offerings, but then taking, blessing and giving out food to the people, as was
their custom. Was that foreshadowing Jesus and his actions, without the unseemly
(too bad) leaping and dancing. Or a pious homily on the Ephesians, and that we
have received, and we have, all spiritual blessings.
