On Rachel's Lament and Not Looking Away
Friday, December 28, 2012 http://intotheexpectation.blogspot.com/2012/12/on-rachels-lament-and-not-looking-away.html The fourth day of Christmas is the Feast of Holy Innocents rooted in the story of Herod’s slaughter of baby boys of Bethlehem in an attempt to annihilate the infant Jesus as recounted in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew . It is also a reminder that many little ones continue to suffer and die due to hunger, disease, neglect, abuse, and violence. Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopalian priest and renowned preacher and author. Her blog, GenerousOrthodoxy, is a fine resource. The following is taken from one of her sermons, Monsters at the Manger . In the sermon she refers to a sermon preached by a Roman Catholic priest, Father Lucic, at a church in Sarajevo during the siege and bombardment there in the 1990’s: The priest’s final words were, “Jesus teaches us that human judgments are not the last judgments, that human justice is not the last justic...