This Friday, the Catholic Church honors the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents. On that day, the Church remembers King Herod's diabolical massacre of the small children in Bethlehem who resembled in age and sex the newborn King and infant boy, Jesus Christ. It has been written that 20 very young boys were murdered by the barbaric Herod. Infanticide carried out on the basis of "mistaken identity." On that day, innocence was lost and martyrs were made.
In 2012, two weeks ago, another act of immoral barbarism was committed upon the very young by a madman. 20 boys and girls, mostly first graders, of ages 6 and 7, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. Another six adults were also were murdered. On that day again, innocence was lost and martyrs were made.
As the peace of Bethlehem was shattered that day by the cries of the slaughtered and of their weeping mothers, so too, the peace of Sandy Hook School was shattered by unfathomable madness and evil.
"Jesus Christ was slain and the peace of the world was shattered by the single cry from the cross. Yet through that death and mourning, peace was reborn, indestructible now, in the Resurrection of the slain Christ."
May the grieved families of the taken innocents today receive the many graces of the "Resurrection of the slain Christ."
May God bless those little children, brave adults and their surviving families.
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