December 28 is the day in the Church calendar when we remember in prayer the children killed due to the insane jealousy of Herod. Deathly afraid of the potential of the new born Messiaiah, he figure that if he simply kill every two year old or younger male child, his future would be secured. Thus, the first martyrs...all helpless, all under two.
On this day, as a parent who has lost children, I think of the parents of those children and the parents of all children who have lost their lives due to the violent, selfish, prideful, envy rigged actioctions of others. Those murdered. Those persecuted. Those who took their lives because of the actions of others. Those killed in war or acts of terrorism. There is no pain like the pain of loosing a your child.
For our children today, we pray for the intercession of those first martyrs.
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