(Matthew 2:16-18) The Feast of the Holy Innocents feels jarring in the midst of the joys of the Christmas Octave, beginning with the Birth of Christ and ending with the Solemnity of Mary ...

Pray with us and for us so that humanity finds love and respect for children and the innocent, so that we learn from them to love the precious treasure, life. Holy Innocents, pray for us!

For these intentions and in union with the Holy Innocents, we pray as the Lord Jesus taught us: “Our Father, who art in heaven …” Feast of the Holy Innocents, post-Communion prayer Michele M.

“May this feast inspire us to protect the lives of ... In honor of the Holy Innocents, whose feast we celebrate today, we pray for an end to abortion and for the protection and safety of all ...

What can the Feast of the Holy Innocents, celebrated on December 28, tell us? Offhand, we can immediately say that like them we can live and end our life here on earth in a most tragic way.

And maybe we should all ask the Holy Innocents for their prayers, that we all would repent of the way nearly all of us fail children in our world today. This past year, I spoke to someone who ...

Today is a hard feast day, the feast of the Holy Innocents. They are the first martyrs ... Had not the LORD been with us— Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.

The strength we need to live and pray in hope comes only from above. We need God’s help and so he sends us his Holy Spirit. The Catechism teaches: “In the end, however, ‘with sighs too deep ...

The novena — a prayer ... of us to be the persistently joyful messengers of the gospel of life and the hopeful companions both children and their mothers need.” The story of the Holy Innocents ...