Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
The Gospel today says that Mary and Joseph “went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover… according to festival custom”.
Our Lady and St. Joseph always did everything the Law of the Lord required, and these things included not only going up to Jerusalem each year, but also the rite of circumcision of the child Jesus as well as the rites of “purification” of the mother and the “presentation” of the first-born son.
Read MoreOn a night more than 2000 years ago, something extraordinary happened. And no one noticed. A child was born in a cave and laid not in a warm bed, but in the feeding box of the animals housed in that cave.
At the birth of this one child the salvation of the entire human race had finally begun and the truly omnipotent King of Kings and Lord of Lords had come among us to save us from sin and death.
Read MoreKing Herod represents those threatened and insecure people who greet the birth of a child with fear. Just as he deceitfully tried to ascertain the child’s whereabouts so that he might kill Him (as Herod typically did with any would-be contenders to his throne), many today see the unborn child as a threat to their own throne of comfort, lifestyle, and personal autonomy.
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