12/26/2014

December 26, 2014....Holy Father's Message for Children

Pope's prayer for

children who are victims

of

violence

2014-12-26 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) Departing from his prepared remarks on Christmas Day, Pope Francis offered a
 
 heartfelt plea for “all those children who are killed and ill-treated.” He spoke passionately about the
 
 “infants killed in the womb, deprived of that generous love of their parents and then buried in the
 
 egoism of a culture that does not love life”; of the children “displaced due to war and persecution,
 
abused and taken advantage of before our very eyes and our complicit silence”; of “infants massacred
 
in bomb attacks” even in the place where the Son of God Himself was born.
 
“Their impotent silence cries out under the sword of so many Herods!” he said, recalling the
 
slaughter of the innocents by Herod the King following the birth of Christ. “On their blood stands the
 
shadow of contemporary Herods. Truly there are so many tears this Christmas, together with the tears
 
of the Infant Jesus.”
 
Pope Francis prayed that Jesus might “save the vast numbers of children who are victims of violence,
 
made objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers; children, so many abused
 
children.”
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

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