We are all bathed in sadness and a spirit of compassion, of tears as we share the pain of the people in Newtown. Father added them to our prayers of the faithful yesterday and I was so touched, I was embarrassed. My tears just flowed. I am sure I have lots of company.
Mary, Mother of Sorrows, or the Sorrowful Mother, truly knows what this pain is like for all those mothers and fathers. She knows what it's like to lose a Son to senseless violence. Mary is there for them all to comfort, console and give them hope.
Recently our readings were: COMFORT MY PEOPLE...for this we pray.
December 28, Feast of the Holy Innocents, we commemorate all the baby boys who were slaughtered at the time of Jesus' birth...in hopes of killing that new-born King of the Jews. We have our own holy innocents to whom we can bring our hopes, our needs. They have God's ear!
That first Christmas Jesus brought LIGHT and HOPE to a world in darkness. Christmas 2012 Jesus again brings LIGHT and HOPE to our country where the "culture of death" with its many hues has such a dark hold.
Let us be people of the LIGHT. People of HOPE.
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