RISE AND FLEE

Feast of the Holy Innocents

Luke 21:36
“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.”
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Two-thousand years ago, the devil used Herod to execute all innocent male children in Bethlehem the hope of killing the Child Jesus.

Today, the devil is using another tool to take that innocence out of our children –
… taking their mind out from godly existence
… and to live a life full of lust and worldly anxieties,

All for this, in the hope of killing Jesus in their hearts.

We can now see it everywhere – the magazines we read, the songs we sing, the music we dance to, the billboards along the busy highways – pictures or themes or messages that promote sex and sexuality.

And the bad news is that these same messages are picked-up by our children.

Today’s sex-obsessed culture forces children into roles they are not mentally, physically or emotionally ready to handle.

Innocence is dying in our children.

When will parents act like adults and rise up to say, “enough!”?

Let us pray +

Oh Lord, through our prayers, may we reach purity. Through our prayers, may we be example of purity. Through our prayers, may we teach others purity. Through our prayers, let all things we are become pure.

Amen +

Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.