Archive for 'Dignity'

Massacre of the Innocents

Matthew 2: 13-18
1 Jn 1:5—2:2 / Ps 124
A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.
(Matthew 2:18)
Innocents continue to be slain –
In mothers’ wombs, and in streets at night.
As innocent must we still remain?
Can no one we fight for [...]

In His Image and Likeness

John 10: 31-42
Jer 20:10-13 / Ps 18
. . . believe the works, so that you may understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.
(John 10:38)
To each person reverence is due,
As everyone’s image is divine.
All our words and actions must be true,
As our image is in God’s design.
The Jews took up [...]