One of the most tender signs of love are babies and toddlers.
Not only are they cute and lovable, they are also signs of life and hope that God gives us so that we can believe that there is a future for us and for them.
Indeed, children are God’s gift to us so that we can prepare a future for them.
To harm children, or even to kill them, is really atrocious and unthinkable.
That was what king Herod did to the children who were under the age of two in Bethlehem.
In his madness and obsession to kill the infant king of the Jews, he went to that extent.
What he did not realise was that he was actually preparing a death sentence for himself, as history would record of his eventual tragic end.
The Church honours these babies and infants martyrs because that act of Herod was a direct violent and hostile aggression to innocent and the helpless.
Let us always protect the unborn, the babies and the children.
They are innocent and helpless against any act of aggression towards them.
More that that, children are God’s gift to us. When we care for them and nurture them with love and faith, they will be God’s blessings to us.