Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Teresa, one of my favorite feast days every year, December 28th, is the feast of the holy innocence.

Those little children that were killed for the sake of Christ

by King Herod in the area of Bethlehem. But their feast day got bumped this year because it fell on a

Sunday. But we can't skip them.

So let's meditate on the significance of the holy innocence.

Now, Moses was the first great leader of the nation of Israel.

And he's really the one who formed the race of the Israelites into a people,

into an autonomous community.

Before that, the Israelites were just an ethnic group living under Egyptian rule.

But there were so many of them that the Egyptians

started to get nervous. And they said, hey, this is our country. And these Israelites, they're all over

the place. We'd better do something about this or they'll take over. They didn't want the Israelites to take over. They didn't want to lose

control. So the Egyptians decreed that when an Israelite boy was born, he should be drowned in

the Nile River. That's a pretty extreme move to slaughter a bunch of babies just so you can maintain control.

But it's a move that will be made again and again.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass

against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil amen.

Hey, O Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

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