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Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs
From the responsorial psalm: “Had not the LORD been with us— When men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive, When their fury was inflamed against us. Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler's snare."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 2:13-18)
When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him." Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt.
Matthew describes the events surrounding the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to escape King Herod's decree to kill all male infants in Bethlehem. An attempt to maintain absolute control, . . .
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Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs
From the responsorial psalm: “Had not the LORD been with us— When men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive, When their fury was inflamed against us. Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler's snare."
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 2:13-18)
When the magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him." Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt.
Matthew describes the events surrounding the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to escape King Herod's decree to kill all male infants in Bethlehem. An attempt to maintain absolute control, . . .

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