They cheated homeowners

In this time of economic challenges, it sometimes seems as if some of the ones who contributed to some of the financial troubles of these days – especially some of the richer and greedier ones who helped create the foreclosure crisis from which many suffer – are walking away with a tidy profit and their wicked heads held up high.

The word of the Lord speaks of them in today’s first reading (Micah 2:1-5):

Woe to those who plan iniquity,
and work out evil on their couches;
In the morning light they accomplish it
when it lies within their power.
They covet fields, and seize them;
houses, and they take them;
They cheat an owner of his house,
a man of his inheritance.
Therefore thus says the LORD:
Behold, I am planning against this race an evil
from which you shall not withdraw your necks;
Nor shall you walk with head high,
for it will be a time of evil.

May you and I always work for true justice and live with perfect charity in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.