“THE GRACE OF
GOD UPON YOU”
Saint Luke 2.
33-40
The Sunday after Christmas: 28 December
Anno + Domini 2014
[Holy +
Innocents Day]
Fr Jay Watson
SSP
In The + Name of Jesus
Today is the Sunday after The Christ Mass.
Today is also Holy Innocents Day. “Old
Adam” tries to ignore both days. Sinful man, sinful Christians, have moved
on from stables, evergreens, presents for immediate family, and is already
planning useless “new years’ resolutions”
with synergistic swinishness. Repent.
Repent of your lack of reverent piety. It is
still the octave—the church season—of Christmas until the vigil of Epiphany on
January 5th. Breathe in Holy
Scripture, the Word of The Lord, and let the Blessed Holy Family—Saint Joseph
and The Blessed Virgin guide you in “marveling
at those things which were spoken of Him.”
Mary and Joseph knew what Arch Angel Gabriel
had said; what the Host of Sabaoth had sung over the Judean fields—what had
been Gospelled to them by the shepherds (and what you sang on The Feast of The
Nativity Thursday in the Gloria in Excelsis)…and
so do you; IF you receive The Word. Repent of your carnal and profane worldliness
and read, mark, learn and inwardly digest Sacred Writ. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear”
Our
Holy Family also hears this morning Saint Anna and Saint Simeon: “Behold this Child is set for the fall and
rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be spoken against.”
Since Adam fell, jumped into the manure of “self” man has been falling. You fall
daily to ego and to the worlds allurements. In today’s sorry decaying world
unborn babies fall under the knife, the suction devices, and chemically
poisonous abortifacients. Herod had a satanically evil reason for slaughtering
the young boys of Bethlehem. But the
reasons today for the holocaust, which has piled up corpses since 1973, are
every bit, if not more so, monstrous. That King sought personal tyranny and
continued monarchy. Today, killers butcher for “choice,” comfort, life-style, and filthy lucre. Pray for the
deceived and misguided who are lured by the same serpent lie “you can be like gods.” Comfort all the “Rachel’s” who are weeping for their children which are not more. And follow the blood. The blood Christ shed
on His own 8th day atoned for and covered the boys of Bethlehem
making them indeed Holy + Innocents, confirmed from before time and sealed in
His own Old Testament sacrament of Circumcision. They now wait secure for the
resurrection of all flesh. The “sign which shall be spoken against”—which
is spoken against and persecuted—is Jesus’ sign of The Holy Cross—His Body and
Blood given as a ransom for sin and all sinners.
Christmas is not for wimps. A soft easy life
is that which is craved by the heathen and the fallen nature even in Jesus’
family members. Blood is the antidote
when it’s the Blood of The Lamb.
The swords which pierced the young hearts of
the boys under two years of age, which pierce all the little ones in-utero, have been turned into glorious
palms of peace and rest by the Sword of the Spirit, the Holy Ghost, giving you
the Jesus who had the sword—the nails, thorns, whip, and spear—pierce Him unto
suffering and death.
You experience a lot of suffering and pain
as human beings. Yes. Everyone does and
will. But as disciples of The Lord you also experience a cruciform
life—suffering for the faith like Saint Stephen proto-martyr, Saint John, and the Holy Innocents. Our Holy Mother Saint Mary, the icon of the
Church, experienced a pain which no mother should ever have to endure—made even
more profound and poignant because she had known from the beginning that her
beloved Son was the Son of God, was God!
From cradling The Lord in the stable to cradling His lifeless Body when
Nicodemus and Joseph removed it from the cross, her life, your life, our life
is always under that cross and covered in that precious Body.
The Body that is alive and now forever
glorious.
Jesus
revealed His heart in her womb, in her arms at the crèche, and on the true
Christ Mass tree of Calvary. Jesus reveals His heart for you today and places
His Blood into your broken hearts filling you with wisdom and grace. Jesus
rose…is risen…and lifts you up from the grave or sorrow and one day dirt!
In The Name of The Father and of The + Son and of
The Holy Ghost
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