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Hey there, Sprouse. Today is Friday, October 2nd, 2020. Once again, a fun feast day today. Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels. Now, we as Catholics believe that there are great variety of angels. We've already celebrated the feast of the archangels today, but we know that God also created angels to protect us,

to stay with us. And through his great love, we each have been given an angel to guard us, a guardian angel.

So today is a wonderful day to praise God for how great he takes care of us and to praise him

for the gift of our own guardian angel. Now this week on Catholic Spouts, we have been talking about the little town of Bethlehem.

We have been talking about five different stories that took place in this one place.

The story of Ruth and Naomi, Ruth, who became the great grandmother of David, talked about David himself.

We talked about the prophecy of Micah that Bethlehem

would be the birthplace of Jesus. Yesterday we talked about this, of course, most important event,

the incarnation when Jesus was born, although hidden for most of the world, in Bethlehem.

And today we're going to talk about the final thing that happened just a few months after

Jesus was born once again in Bethlehem. And this is a terribly sad, sad thing that happened.

It is the death of the holy innocence. That's what we say.

This is something you probably have heard about when you read the gospel. But here is what happened.

When the magi were traveling through, they stopped and saw King Herod. And King Herod, who was a Jew himself, although a very proud and violent man, not living out

his Jewish faith at all, he wondered why they were heading through his land and they talked to him

about the star.

Of course, King Heron knew the prophecy of Micah. He knew

that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, but he also desperately wanted to be the single

person in power. He didn't want anyone to interfere with his power. So he told the magi a lie. He told them to go find this king

and then to come back and tell him so he could go and worship this king himself. Secretly, of course,

we know that Herod simply wanted to go and kill the Messiah. Now, the Magi knew this,

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