Welcome to the Saturday Examine.

Welcome to the Saturday Examine. This week, we have celebrated feasts of birth and death.

Christmas Day, the martyrdom of Stephen, the feast of the beloved disciple,

and today, the massacre of the holy innocence.

Our readings have brought us face to face with the brightest light and the deepest darkness. Elizabeth and Zechariah have aged beyond any hope

veering a child. Mary and Joseph have their own challenges in that respect, yet God

makes both couples fruitful. When we ponder the words of Scripture with care, it is not we who

interrogate Scripture, but Scripture which interrogates and challenges us.

Have you had any sense during this week of the Christmas readings interrogating you? No. I'm I'm Saint Iranius wrote that the glory of God is a human being fully alive,

and human life consists in beholding God.

As the angels proclaim God's glory to the world in God's incarnate Son,

what do you find the birth of Jesus meaning in your life and the life of the world?

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We've heard about the death of Jesus himself, the death of Stephen, the first to die willingly

for his faith in Jesus.

Today, we remember the story of the massacre of the holy Innocence, babies and children who, like so many today, die as collateral damage in the murderous conflicts raging about them.

What needs to die in you, or in the world, for Christ's reign to come to birth.

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