Today’s Psalmist calls upon his Lord Yahweh who is a warmaker to save the land of Israel, “Restore us, O Lord, our savior.” In the Gospel, Peter sees his peacemaker teacher in a boat on the water and calls upon him, “Have me to come to you.” Jesus does, “Come” he says, and so…
The family Maccabees refuses to obey a foreign War Lord, King Antiochus IV. Antiochus was outlawing Jewish religious traditions and forcing the family to obey Greek ones, for example, the deadly just war tradition. Thus the king “slaughtered” many; “in the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost.” But the Maccabees’ Jewish religious…