DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Evil in the World” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, King Herod was plotting to kill every child below the age of two; in the hope of killing the Messiah-Child. However, with the angel’s warning in a dream, Joseph escaped to Egypt. Ponder on, “Turn to God’s Protective Care when you encounter any forms of evil. God is almighty and Merciful, and He will not fail us.”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 2:13-16
After the wise men had left, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and do away with him.’ So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: I called my son out of Egypt.
Herod was furious on realising that he had been outwitted by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or under, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men.