Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day on which we remember all the baby boys slain by Herod’s soldiers, and my thoughts turn especially to those babies who suffer death in our culture simply because they look like baby Jesus, weak and unable to speak in their own defense. They will one day share His glory because they share in His death, hated by the evil one because of their purity and beauty.
I think today, also, of the mothers who are so often themselves victims of a culture that gives them no other choices but the death of their child. Their pain and guilt must be especially poignant in this Christmas season. May their children who now sit in the lap of Jesus comfort them in a special way on this feast and lead them to forgiveness and healing.
Holy Innocents, please pray for us and for the end to the madness that is our abortion holocaust.
Father, forgive them...
Thanks Katie. I prayed at my parish’s little Holy Innocents shrine this morning not even knowing today was their feast day!
Holy Innocents pray for us!
Tom