Two Weeks Since...
It's been two weeks since the lives of 20 children were taken in a school in Newtown, CT. Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents . King Herod, afraid of this newborn king, ordered the death of all the baby boys in Bethlehem. Joseph was warned by an angel and got the Holy Family out of town and to Egypt in time to escape this. Whether this actually happened or not, is for the Bible scholars to decide. In Germany, two years ago, I came face to face with the fascination of Holy Innocents. The Bavarian royal family kept relics of these babies (or of babies claimed to be from that massacre) in ornate reliquaries. Holy Innocents reliquary in Munich, Germany. Perhaps in this way, without the benefit of endless repetitive news coverage, they could remember that innocent lives can be lost through greed or cruelty. Or perhaps they were just part of the relics craze. For all the news coverage, we don't remember that well. The children of Newtown are still uppermost in our me...