If we are indeed to become salt of the earth and a light on a hill we need to locate ourselves in the tradition of justice and mercy, right action and compassion, that the prophets spoke so challengingly about. (Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. Matthew 5:13-20; Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12); Psalm 112:1-10; and 1 Corinthians 2:1-12.) Sentence:  “Is this not the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break