text: (Part two of two)  “When MEN rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive” (Psalm 124:2).  With regard to those falsely accused, the Faithful do well to recall “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for there is the Kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:10) and false accusations are going to happen . . . here.  “Jesus said to his Apostles:  “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth” (Matthew 10:34) as the Faithful head into some brutal thinking and confrontations.  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 389, Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time I.