Today's Gospel reading came from Matthew 2. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph to ask him to take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there, for King Herod was going to search for the child to destroy him. You see, when Herod first heard that the magi from the east had arrived in Jerusalem to look for the newborn king of the Jews to do him homage, he was greatly troubled. He assembled all the chief priests and the scribes of the people and found out that the Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem of Judea. Then he called the magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the child's birth. Finally, he ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under. Herod committed this evil because he felt threatened by the emergence of another king. Now, look at today's proabortionists. They decide to kill their own unborn just for convenience sake! They may not be as ruthless as Herod, but there are just as heartless.
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