9 Gilbert --, author of novels The
Holy Innocents and Love and Death on Long Island (5)
I'm referring to the Feast of the
Holy Innocents, or Innocents' Day.
Leila de Lima called on Filipinos to remember and seek justice for the innocent children who have been killed in the Duterte administration's violent campaign against illegal drugs as the country observed the Catholic Feast of the
Holy Innocents. According to De Lima, children and their families should not be paying the price of the 'flawed' campaign.
HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Today (Friday) Holy Communion will take place at 11am for
Holy Innocents and on Sunday, Holy Communion will be at 8.30am followed by Sung Eucharist at 10.30am.
27-28, 2017, Faith and Resistance Retreat in honor of the Feast of the
Holy Innocents, which commemorates the children whom King Herod ordered killed in his attempt to destroy the infant Jesus.
Mary 1898 Fr Casimir Jean Saleilles begins building Neo-Gothic church 8 Dec 1901 Neo-Gothic church unveiled as Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1916
Holy Innocents' English School founded 1920
Holy Innocents' Chinese Boys' School founded 1924 St.
The community's response has been to sanctify these ancestors' deaths rather than their lives, as though it were our responsibility to recall their murderers' actions rather than theirsand thereby to regard these ancestors as
holy innocents, trapped in sentimental amber.
Christopher Swann holds a PhD in creative writing and is the English department chair at
Holy Innocents' Episcopal School.
I was well into my adult years before I knew the church had a day set aside for the Feast of the
Holy Innocents, a commemoration of King Herod's murder of all young male children in Bethlehem.
I could hardly sing, I was so overcome with emotion at the transformative nature of that hymn, where men who had done unspeakable things to other human beings could become
holy innocents again for a few minutes of an afternoon before Christmas, in one of the most unholy places on the planet ...
The fourth day observes the Feast of the
Holy Innocents, which honours the children massacred by Herod the Great who had been told that among the newborns on 25 December a child was born who would replace him as king of the Jews.
Every 28 December, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the Feast of the
Holy Innocents. But one doesn't have to be a Catholic to remember this event; one only needs to have read the Christmas narrative in Matthew's Gospel.