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The collect for today, the Innocents' Day, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths; Mortify and kill all vice in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For The Epistle: Revelation 14:1-5
The Gospel: St Matthew 2:13-18
Today is an appropriate day to remember the victims of abortion.
More on The Holy Innocents here.
Painting: Tintoretto, The Slaughter of the Innocents, 1582-87. Scuola di San Rocco, Venice.
