ALL MUST ESCHEW HATE IN 2018: Today's Gospel Reading

You recall the wise men saw the stars and set out to worship Jesus after His Birth they brought  gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  You recall they had asked King Herod, after Jesus was born, "Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”   Recall the Holy Child was born in a manger.  Jesus Christ didn’t have earthly possessions He was without Sin. He rode in a colt someone’s colt. He lived in a house he built none. He was a Celibate.  A prominent Nigerian who shall not be named once re-tweeted somebody’s tweet that Mary Magdalene was His Spouse. He was later to apologize. Apologies Accepted. 

Today’s Gospel Matthew 2:13-18. Having just returned from  this evening’s  worship I am Catholic and seek to explain the historical sequence of the narratives. In NBA some past Presidents and their lackeys get so upset as to start threatening Lawyers and their families, unlawfully.   Sorry but 3 known NBA past Presidents often issue, unlawful threats  and unconventional tools of war. If you want to fight do so in a battle of the best intellect only as intellectual fight dignifies  notable professionals/statesmen like you. Whereas non-conventional tools are tawdry and un-dignifying. ALL must eschew HATE in 2018.

Matthew 2:13-18

The Flight to Egypt

¹³ Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” ¹⁴ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt ¹⁵ and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Herod Kills the Children

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. ¹⁷ Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

¹⁸ “A voice was heard in Ramah,
    weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
    she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”