{"id":86364,"date":"2015-12-28T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=86364"},"modified":"2015-12-28T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:24:27","slug":"the-holy-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-holy-innocents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy fourth day of Christmas! Today we pause a moment in our revelry for the feast of the Holy Innocents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had ascertained from the magi.<\/p>\n

T<\/span>hen was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet:<\/p>\n

\u201cA voice was heard in Ramah,
\nsobbing and loud lamentation;
\nRachel weeping for her children,
\nand she would not be consoled,
\nsince they were no more.\u201d<\/p>\n

(The Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew<\/em>,
chapter 2, verses 16-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n