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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Innocents
		Holy Innocents, since the chronology of the birth of Christ and the subsequent Biblical events is most uncertain.
		Holy Innocents were killed fifteen weeks after the birth of Christ.
		Holy Innocents from the pen of the Venerable Bede, "Hymnum canentes martyrum" (Dreves, "Analecta hymnica") and a sequence composed by Notker, "Laus tibi Christe", but most Churches at Mass used the "Clesa pueri concrepant melodia" (Kehrein, "Sequenzen", 1873, p.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07419a.htm (1066 words)

	PGSA - Holy Innocents Chicago
		Holy Innocents Church at Superior and Armour St. was founded in 1905 to serve the expanding Polish community on the near northwest side of Chicago.
		Enrollment in Holy Innocents school continued to increase and in 1914 construction began on a three story brick structure at the northwest corner of Superior and Bishop St. Completed at a cost of $75,000 on the site of the former frame church, the new school contained 12 classrooms and a parish hail.
		Holy Innocents parish also belongs to a civic organization known as the Conservation of Property Association (COPA), and it is a member of the Northwest Community Organization which represents nearly 200 civic, church, and community groups.
	www.pgsa.org /ArchChiPolPar/HolyInnocChi.htm (1444 words)

	Holy Innocents Episcopal Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Holy Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ's Body the Church.
		Holy Baptism is appropriately administered within the Eucharist as the chief service on a Sunday or other feast.
		Parents and godparents are to be instructed in the meaning of Baptism, in their duties to help the new Christians grow in the knowledge and love of God, and in their responsibilities as members of the Church.
	www.holyinnocentsvalrico.com /baptism.shtml (335 words)

	THE HOLY INNOCENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Feast of the Holy Innocents is fittingly celebrated soon after Christmas Day since the Holy Innocents stood in the place of the Child Jesus and saved Him from death by their own shedding of blood.
		Parents have an opportunity to explain that the Holy Innocents are the special patrons of small children; they help them to please the Infant by obeying their parents, loving their playmates, sharing their toys.
		This feast day, when the father blesses the children with holy water and signs their foreheads with the sign of the cross, reminds us that the father of the family stands at the head of the "little church" which is the home.
	members.aol.com /cfortunato/Christmas/Innocents/rite.htm (493 words)

	Holy Innocents - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Holy Innocents in the New Testament, children of Bethlehem "from two years old and under," killed by the order of Herod the Great in the attempt to destroy the infant Jesus.
		The Innocents have been venerated in the Christian Church as martyrs since ancient times.
		Ninos Inocentes observed today; Church considers holy innocents as first martyrs Thousands of boys gave up their lives for the Savior.(Main News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-holyi1nno.html (205 words)

	Holy Mass - Holy Innocents: The Holy Sacrifice versus Human Sacrifice
		We are relating the Holy Eucharist as the Mass to the slaughter of the innocent boys whom King Herod ordered to be killed.
		Our second contrast is between the sacrifice which Jesus made of Himself on the cross and which is perpetuated in the Eucharistic Liturgy with the present-day paganism which imitates the pagan sacrifice of children in the religions of prechristian society.
		The Holy Innocents who were killed shortly after Christ's birth were the beginning of so many murderers of unborn children since the time of Christ.
	www.therealpresence.org /eucharst/link/innocent.htm (1950 words)

	Feast of the Holy Innocents
		Also called Childermas, or Innocents' Day festival celebrated in the Christian churches in the West on December 28 and in the Eastern churches on December 29.
		This is one of the seven sorrows of Mary: to realize the hatred others would have of her Son and Lord; to understand that saving her own baby led to the death of others.
		O God, whose praise the martyred innocents did this day proclaim, not by speaking, but by dying: Destroy in us all the malice of sinfulness, that our lives may also proclaim thy faith, which our tongues profess.
	members.chello.nl /~l.de.bondt/HolyInnocents.htm (269 words)

	Massacre of the Innocents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of Herod's infanticide, attested in the Gospel of Matthew 2:16ff, but not mentioned in the other gospels nor in the early apocrypha.
		The earliest extrabiblical reference to the Massacre of the Innocents is by Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, a Roman philosopher of the fourth century.
		The massacre of the innocents is explained by Matthew as fulfilling a prophecy of an Old Testament prophet, which most ancient manuscripts of Matthew identify as Jeremiah, but the Old Syriac Sinaiticus manuscript has it being Isaiah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Innocents (1390 words)

	The Hymns Of The Holy Innocents
		The feast day for the Holy Innocents is December 28.
		Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
		Holy Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept" and "Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb"), p.
	www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Text/hymns_of_the_holy_innocents.htm (259 words)

	The Holy Innocents
		The Ethiopians in their liturgy, and the Greeks in their calendar, count fourteen thousand children massacred on this occasion; but that number exceeds all bounds, nor is it confirmed by any authority of weight.
		Innocent victims became the spotless Lamb of God.
		Parents, pastors, and tutors are bound to make it their principal care that children, in their innocent age, be by piety and charity consecrated as pure holocausts to God.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/HOLYINNO.htm (1335 words)

	The Sacraments - Holy Mass-Holy Innocents: The Holy Sacrifice Versus Human Sacrifice - John A. Hardon, S.J. - Catholic ...
		We are relating the Holy Eucharist as the Mass to the slaughter of the innocent boys whom King Herod ordered to be killed.
		The Holy Eucharist, as the sacrament of love, also confers the grace of seeing Christ in everyone who enters our life, and in sharing what we have with others as the fruit of Christ’s sharing Himself with us in Holy Communion.
		The Holy Innocents who were killed shortly after Christ’s birth were the beginning of so many murderers of unborn children since the time of Christ.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/00MarApr/sacraments.html (1937 words)

	The Holy Innocents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ethiopians in their liturgy, and the Greeks in their calendar, count fourteen thousand children massacred on this occasion; but that number exceeds all bounds, nor is it confirmed by any authority of weight.
		Parents, pastors, and tutors are bound to make it their principal care that children, in their innocent age, be by piety and charity consecrated as pure holocausts to God.
		This is chiefly to be done by imprinting upon their minds the strongest sentiments of devotion, and by instructing them thoroughly in their catechism.
	www.faith.org.uk /Ideas/Saints/TheHolyInnocents.html (1439 words)

	CPF - Holy Innocents
		Herod felt threatened by the birth of a child whom he perceived to be a rival king.
		These innocent lives bear witness to Christ, Who was persecuted from the time of His birth by a world that would not receive Him.
		For as today's feast reveals, in the measure with which malice in all its fury was poured out upon the holy children, did heaven's blessing stream down upon them.
	www.catholicpeacefellowship.org /nextpage.asp?m=2415 (583 words)

	Feast of the Holy Innocents
		In countries where our own innocents are daily being slaughtered by abortion, this feast day is a special time to remember the unborn, to pray for their cause, and perhaps to picket or pray at facilities where unborn babies are killed through abortion.
		The ancient Coventry Carol is a mournful lullaby to the Holy Innocents.
		It tells the story of the murder of the Holy Innocents, and is sung on December 28, the feast of those tiny martyrs.
	www.wf-f.org /innocents.html (1050 words)

	The Church of the Holy Innocents - Campus Ministry
		The Parish of The Church of the Holy Innocents
		Holy Innocents provides a full-service campus ministry program to the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
		We at Holy Innocents believe we are helping to grow future generations of lay leaders, vestry members, and wardens for the Episcopal Church.
	holyinnocentshf.dioceseny.org /ministry.htm (384 words)

	Welcome to Holy Innocents' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Welcome to the unofficial webpage of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Fallowfield, Manchester.
		The Holy sacrifice of the Eucharist is central to our Christian life and witness and is offered daily at various times, to suit different lifestyles.
		Holy Innocents' is on Wilbraham Road, (just off Wilmslow Road), next to the Queen of Hearts pub.
	www.webspawner.com /users/minceymike (245 words)

	Compass Vol. 13 #6, Fahey Article
		By the fourth century the Holy Innocents, as they were called by the Roman church, were regarded as martyrs, their feast being celebrated in the Latin tradition on December 28.
		The fifth-century writer Macrobius related that when news of the murders reached Rome, Caesar Augustus, mistakenly believing that Herod's son Antipater (executed at about the same time) was among the victims, remarked, in a snide reference to Jewish dietary laws, "It is better to be Herod's hog than his son." Other tales concerned Herod.
		Historically, the reasons for the Innocents' appeal to the Christian imagination are complex.
	gvanv.com /compass/arch/v1306/saint.html (633 words)

	Holy Innocents
		A painting solely to commemorate the "Innocents" of War.
		The Godly figure skyward is awaiting to receive this "Being's" emaciated but tranquil body and soul, so as to place it in a hyper-physical state of ideal perfection.
		Excitement in life is to be found, perhaps, living at what we call 'The Edge of Chaos' - a state that, it seems, children manage to find quite naturally...
	www.calresco.org /ewp/holyinct.htm (317 words)

	Feast of the Holy Innocents (Childermas)
		As to the slaughter of the Innocents in the New Testament, first some background: Herod the Great, the Governor of Galilee, was an Idumean Jew whom History describes as an extremely cruel man: he was a man who killed several of his wives and his own sons when he suspected they were plotting against him.
		As Bethlehem was a small town, the number of these Holy Innocents was probably no more than 25, but they are glorious martyrs who died not only for Christ, but in His place.
		Note: A Novena to the Magi in anticipation of the Feast of the Epiphany is also often begun today, ending on 5 January, the Vigil of the Epiphany.
	fisheaters.com /customschristmas5.html (865 words)

	FAITHmag.com \| Today's FAITH \| Holy Innocents
		This is adult religious fiction in the truest sense, a book that shows admirable people attempting to live their values in the face of conflicts that assault them personally and threaten the peace of their community.
		It puts a human face on the abortion issue, exploring the one concern often overlooked in pro-life writings: the emotional suffering that can drive a young woman to abort her child.
		"'Holy Innocents,' a novel of today, is the story of a town shocked by the discovery of a dead baby in the trash.
	www.faithmag.com /exclusive/holyinnocents.html (392 words)

	Holy Innocents Society
		The Holy Innocents Society is a Diocesan Society consisting of a federation of the four county chapters of the Diocese.
		Holy Innocents' Centers throughout the Diocese provide persons who are mentally challenged and are not able to function in a regular Religious Education Program, with religious education geared to their individual learning ability.
		By developing faith in God's providence, an awareness of the love of Jesus Christ for his children and a trust in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the catechists try to foster within each student a positive self-concept, with a sense of morality and Christian community.
	www.dioceseoftrenton.org /justice/holyinnocents.asp (235 words)

	The Christmas Season
		Even though Christmas is the most popular and most celebrated of the Christian Holy Days, it is interesting that it does not play such a central role in the biblical traditions or the Gospel accounts.
		He also tells of the slaughter of the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem as the deranged Herod sought to eliminate any competition for his throne.
		Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
	www.cresourcei.org /cyxmas.html (2837 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : December 28, 2004 : Holy Innocents
		During this octave of Christmas the Church celebrates the memory of the small children of the neighborhood of Bethlehem put to death by Herod.
		Sacrificed by a wicked monarch, these innocent lives bear witness to Christ who was persecuted from the time of His birth by a world which would not receive Him.
		These then, whom Herod's cruelty tore as sucklings from their mothers' bosom, are justly hailed as "infant martyr flowers"; they were the Church's first blossoms, matured by the frost of persecution during the cold winter of unbelief.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2004-12-28 (575 words)

	The Holy Innocents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commentators tend to doubt that such an event ever took place, or at least reduce the size of the slaughter to ‘manageable’ proportions: between six and twenty-five.
		At the very least, the Innocents symbolise those who are ready to die for Christ at any age and in any time: they died instead of Christ, and thus for him.
		The glory of Jesus is offered to those who resemble the ‘holy babes and sucklings’ (Martyrdom of Jerome, quoting Psalm 8).
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/TheHolyInnocents.htm (142 words)

	Sacramentum Vitae: The Feast of the Holy Innocents
		Thousands are killed each day in the womb at their mothers' behest: some because their birth would make their mothers' lives very difficult; others because their birth would make their mothers' lives less commodious; a few because their birth would end their mothers' lives.
		We need not despair, of course: the Holy Innocents are their patrons in heaven.
		Yet the Holy Innocents should also be patrons of all who die on Christ's account without knowing it.
	mliccione.blogspot.com /2006/12/feast-of-holy-innocents.html (431 words)

	Vatican_City, Holy Innocents
		Catholic Encyclopedia: Holy Innocents - Fairly long article on these children, and the commemoration of their martyrdom.
		James Kiefer's Christian Biographies: The Holy Innocents - With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
		The story of the Holy Innocents, the baby boys who were murdered on Herod's orders after the birth of Christ.
	vaby.net /holy-innocents.html (147 words)

	The Holy Innocents
		The Holy Innocents were the children of Bethlehem (numbered 14,000 on Eastern calendars) who were slaughtered by order of King Herod in his attempt to eliminate the infant Jesus.
		Although the Holy Innocents were not believers and were unaware of the reason for their fate, they were killed for the sake of Christ, and in a sense in place of him, and the church by the beginning of the third century recognized them as martyrs.
		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 and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
	www.churchonthehilltop.org /devotions/20021228.htm (413 words)

	Outreach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Holy Innocents Church in Duvall seeks to fulfill its mission of service to all in need who come to seek aid.
		Holy Innocents has for many years provided space for Alcoholic Anonymous Meetings at a minimal charge.
		Holy Innocents is planning construction of a new and large Outreach Center and Church to be able to expand services to others in need.
	www.holyinn.org /Outreach (222 words)

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