Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Matthew 2:13-18
¹³ When they had gone, an angel of the Lord

appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” ¹⁴ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, ¹⁵ where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” ¹⁶ When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. ¹⁷ Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

 ¹⁸ “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.”

Reflection

If the whole teenage pregnancy, trip to Bethlehem, and

giving birth in a barn were not enough. now Mary finds out that Herod wants to kill them. What feelings do you think Mary had when she had to pack up her newborn baby and flee to a foreign land? What struggles do you think she is having with being faithful to God’s plan?