DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Holy Innocents”: In King Herod’s intent to kill the Infant Jesus, he slaughtered all male infants under the age of two. Likewise, in today’s secular world, infants are killed in their mothers’ womb through abortion. Let us pray for all infants especially those who are in their mothers’ wombs be protected from harm.
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 fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men.