This is the movement of the Holy Family leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation, and the Rosary

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

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for, especially praying for Troy

Bettis. A young father who is really struggling with appendix cancer.

So let's all lay siege to heaven for the healing of this father Troy Betis.

But we also offer this rosary for the father of Dave Staples, one of the great instructors for the School of

Faith in Cincinnati. And we're offering this Rosary for my parents, Art Nurlish Shurslich, for their 58th wedding anniversary, and for the intention of

Kendall Noll.

Now let's pause for a moment and you can call to mind your own intentions and I encourage

you to voice them out loud if you're praying with others.

So why does God allow pain and sadness?

What is their purpose and what are we to do with them?

Today's feast, the martyrdom of the holy innocence,

those little children whom King

Herod murdered in his effort to prevent Jesus from becoming king, they help us

to answer these questions. Now Frank Sheed makes a striking point. The children

massacred and their parents who experienced the pain of their loss are the only people

who suffered in order to save God's life.

By their death, Herod believed he had killed the Messiah, the newborn king of the Jews, and

thus Jesus was saved.

In some way, God is eternally indebted to these little children and their parents.

And in return, the children gained the crown of martyrdom, being killed for the sake of Christ, and they received the reward of heaven.

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