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.”
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.
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