We can click on Duccio's painting of The Dormition of the Virgin Mary to hear a teaching and a prayer for the feast day.
Before or after listening—a note about biblical justice. The word justice means "to make right." This suggests things can go wrong. Justice is a relational word—righting our relationship with God, one another and the natural world. The prophet Micah says we are to "do justice." Offenses against justice would be, selfishness, entitlement, willful ignorance, greed, power abuse, exploitation. A formed (raised) conscience and an awakened heart are needed to bring about justice, whether it be that of an individual, a small community, a nation, a collection of nations.
