Herod’s Murder of the Innocents and the Escape of St. John - The Incarnation - Bk4 - Ch27
The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda tells us about the plan Herod had to murder the innocents and how the Blessed Virgin Mary was aware of it. She also describes how John the Baptist was taken into the wilderness by Elizabeth to escape Herod's evil plans. The Blessed Virgin Mary encourages us to weep over the souls that give in to evil inclinations saying, "My daughter, in what you have written I wish that you learn a lesson from the very sorrow and apprehension with which you have performed this task. Well-founded is your sorrow to see how such a noble creature as man, made according to the likeness and image of the Lord, endowed with such divine qualities, and gifted with the power of knowing, loving, seeing, and enjoying God eternally, should allow himself to be degraded and defiled by such brutal and abominable passions as to shed the innocent blood of those who can do no harm to anyone. This should induce you to weep over the ruin of so many souls; especially in the times in which you live, when that same ambition which incited Herod, has kindled such great hatred and enmity among the children of the Church, occasioning the ruin of countless souls and causing the waste and loss of the blood of my most holy Son, poured out for the salvation of men. Do bitterly deplore this loss."
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