HOLY INNOCENTS

It is very disheartening at times when we are confronted with the harsh realities of life. It is undeniable that the power of darkness and death is at work and tries to snuff out the light and take out life. We encounter people who try to inflict guilt and torture upon the other person who try to be close to the Lord. It is ever present when we see love being extended and the response is hatred. We see this everyday and we ask ourselves why? People who respond in this way are in truth afraid and being threatened by something they don't really understand. They choose to respond and allow what is opposite to the light to prevail. The real tragedy of this life is when we do not let the light of our lives shine. We need to be in touch with this passage from today's 1st reading and respond and live it with its full meaning. Amen. Hallelujah!

1 Jn 1:5—2:2
God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

We should stop doing the sinful thing that we really don't want to do because we have already been saved. We are no longer bound to the yoke of sin and death, we are free. Amen. Hallelujah!

Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8
R. (7) Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
Broken was the snare, and we were freed. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.


Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents. King Herod was threatened by a poor baby and ordered the killing of innocent children. We can see how ridiculous it was for someone like him to do such a heinous crime for fear of a baby. We may not be killing innocent babies but when we act in a way that we reject Christ and what He stands for then we are no different from Herod. He is afraid when a baby is born and think that his kingdom will be taken away from him. When we are afraid or gets threatened about something we end up doing things that we sometimes don’t really want to do nor understand why we do it. In the process we find ourselves left with nothing and lose everything we even thought of killing or dying for. We look at the fate of Herod. He slew innocent babies because of fear in his heart that slew him instead by seeking to murder life itself. The death of the holy innocents was not in vain because in death they preached what their young mouths could not utter. The Holy Innocents enjoyed the kind of death that gives way to heavenly bliss and eternal joy. It was surely a gruesome death; but we see now that it was also a glorious death. Amen. Hallelujah!


Mt 2:13-18

...When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under,