Hail Flowers of the Martyrs!
Today the Church honors those children massacred by Herod's decree.
from a reflection by Charles Peguy:
"The Church does not only say they are first-fruits to God and to the Lamb; the Church invokes them and names them flowers of the Martyrs, thus meaning literally that the other Martyrs are the fruits but that these, among the Martyrs, are the flowers themselves."
"You are not restrained by...the cries and sobs of the children. You destroy those who are tiny in body because fear is destroying your heart. You imagine that if you accomplish your desire you can prolong your own life, though you are seeking to kill Life himself."
Pray for the unborn victims of a society driven by fear to its own grave. Pray for the infants massacred by war, plague, and famine every single day around the world. Pray for the children torn, bruised, and broken. Pray for the victims of incest, rape, molestation, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, child labor, abuse, neglect, and countless nameless horrors.
May the Holy Innocents protect them.
Rachel still is weeping~
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