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July 7, 2016

To this day, the Christ-child is under threat

Do we arm ourselves in the face of violence, asks Fr. Rolheiser.

The Gospels tell us that after King Herod died, an angel appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, telling him: “Get up! Take the child and His Mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the child’s life are now dead” (Matthew 2, 19-20). The angel, it would seem, spoke prematurely, the child, the infant Christ, was still in danger, is still in danger, is still mortally threatened, right to this day. 

Published in Fr. Ron Rolheiser