Episode 298 - Infant Martyr Flowers

How can we be so bold — to call this massacre a feast? To crown the slain children of Bethlehem with palms and praise? And yet the Church dares. Because the Cross has transfigured all suffering — even this. The swords that fell upon them are now their toys; the blood they shed is their baptism.

What Herod meant for evil, God received as an offering. These little ones, the Church’s first blossoms, were matured not by years but by innocence. Their deaths recall Egypt and exile, Rachel’s weeping and Mary’s sorrow — but also the promise: they shall return. They shall come back from the land of the enemy.

This is how we dare to rejoice. Because Christ is born. Because death is now the servant of glory. Because no cruelty can touch what is held by Love.