Epiphany daybook, week 1: Can you hear the childless mothers crying out?

My Epiphany daybook for this first week of witness. Join me, won't you? (see all of the Epiphany daybook posts from 2015 here)

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Families Grieve For Pakistani Students Killed In Massacre

Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

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Exodus 1:22-2:10: Pharoah commanded..."Every son that is born to the Hebrews, you shall cast into the Nile..." 

Matthew 2:16-18: Then Herod...became furious...and killed all the male children in Bethlehem

{all readings for the day: Psalm 110; Exodus 1:22-2:10/ Matthew 2:16-18; Hebrews 11:23-26}

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pray 

We remember, O God, that when the wise men worshiped the Christ, King Herod slaughtered the holy innocents of Bethlehem. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (source)

Lord have mercy on us; Christ, have mercy on us; Lord, have mercy on us.  Amen.

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Coventry Carol / King Without A Mountain

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listen & pray 

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