Holy Innocents

28 December is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. They are the about 15-20 Jewish males younger than 2 yrs old in the Bethlehem area that were murdered by Herod the Great in his attempt to eliminate the "Newborn King of the Jews". The story of this event is found in the Gospel of Matthew: "Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and sending killed all the men children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." (Matt 2:16-18)

According to a report by Macrobius, when Emperor Augustus heard about the fact that among those killed was Herod's own son he is supposed to have said: "It is better to be Herod's hog [ous], than his son [houios]." & this was just 1 of Herod's minor cruelties during his reign.

In recent years the Holy Innocents have come to be the unofficial patron saints of the unborn murdered in the womb by abortion in its various horrific forms. & in my opinion Herod could very well be considered the patron of Planned Parenthood.

Herod knew that his whole reign was a fraud. He wasn't a descendant of King David, in fact he wasn't even of Jewish ancestry, he was Idumæan. they were forced t convert to Judiasm in the 2nd Century BC. He kept control by fear & terror. He wasn't above eliminating anybody that he considered undesirable. In other words, he was very much like like Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (PP). Margaret Sanger supported eugenics, was a fan of Adolph Hitler & promoted the sterilization of undesirables such as blacks, southern Europeans (including Italians) & practicing Christians. (More about Margaret Sanger & the real goals of Planned Parenthood can be found on American Life League's (ALL) STOPP (Stop Planned Parenthood).) Is Planned Parenthood's support of partial birth abortion any different than what Herod did?

Herod thought he would eliminate the threat to his throne, but in the end he died & had to answer for his actions. His dynasty has vanished from the face of the Earth, Someday the cruel reign of Planned Parenthood will actually come to an end. They know that they are on the loosing side, jsut as Herod did. They will do anything they can to try & keep themselves in power, lies, threats fraudulent surveys. A good example of this is the recently released report by Planned Parenthood's propaganda arm, The Guttmacher Institute. It claims that 95% of all Americans (going back to the 1940s) have had premarital sex. Besides the fact that my own experience proves different, there are many flaws in the study. (See the Wednesday STOPP Report, 27 Dec 2006 for more info.)

As Jim Sedlak, VP of ALL, points out in an article for TheHill.com: "We all remember the 'studies' of the tobacco industry telling us how safe and non-addictive smoking is. Now comes another report, from another industry lapdog, claiming federal funding for its products are needed, and we are suppose to believe it? It is time Americans understood that Planned Parenthood produces these reports for the same reason the tobacco industry produced its purportedly scientific studies -- to increase its profits."

I am sure that all the millions of victims of abortion are joining in with the Holy Innocents & pleading in Heaven before God for an end to abortion. & I know that someday soon God will see that it is ended. In the meantime, each of us needs to do our part to bring this day about. Part of that is supporting the various Pro-life groups listed in the right-hand column of this blog, financially, by doing volunteer work & esp by prayer. & our reward? I think former Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois put it best: "When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God - and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world - and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"