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That Light and Life would reign, let us show forth Christ — with angel wing and martyr crown.
Homily for the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Wednesday in the Christmas Octave), delivered at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld.
This is what we have heard from Jesus Christ, and the message that we are announcing to you: God is light; if we say that we are in union with God... if we say we have no sin in us, we are receiving ourselves. But if we live our lives in the light... if we acknowledge our sins [and] if anyone should sin, we have our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, [who] takes our sins away, and not only ours, but the whole world’s." (cf. 1 Jn 1).
"If the Lord had not been on our side when men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive..." (cf. Ps 24).
"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 when he realised 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. It was then that the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loudly lamenting: it was Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they were no more.'" (cf. Mt 2).
Artwork: an icon of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, retrieved from the Damascene Gallery website.
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By Ashwin Emmanuel AcharyaHomily for the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Wednesday in the Christmas Octave), delivered at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld.
This is what we have heard from Jesus Christ, and the message that we are announcing to you: God is light; if we say that we are in union with God... if we say we have no sin in us, we are receiving ourselves. But if we live our lives in the light... if we acknowledge our sins [and] if anyone should sin, we have our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, [who] takes our sins away, and not only ours, but the whole world’s." (cf. 1 Jn 1).
"If the Lord had not been on our side when men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive..." (cf. Ps 24).
"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 when he realised 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. It was then that the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loudly lamenting: it was Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they were no more.'" (cf. Mt 2).
Artwork: an icon of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, retrieved from the Damascene Gallery website.