prophet  Jeremiah  had  said was fulfilled: A cry is heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation: Rachel weeps for her children. She refuses to be comforted, for they are no more.

Reflections

“Rachel weeps for her children.”The Church always safe­ guards life, even of the unborn. Even in the early life of the Church, we have consistently protected life from “womb to tomb”. The letter to Diognetus, a non Christian, explained that Christians “do not kill babies”.The martyrdom of the Holy Innocents reminds us of the sa­ credness of life, especially of the unborn. We recall today the in­ fants who were killed at the order of Herod the Great, who was not so comfortable with the thought of a “messiah” or by and large, to his perceived competitor.Indeed the first reading is right, “God is light and in his there is no darkness”. We cannot allow darkness to rule, injustice to ruin the truth and “Rachel weeping again for her children”.The Christmas season brings us to a perspective of life. We are agents of light and life and not people of darkness and sin. © Copyright Bible Diary 2019