Saints’ Days and Holy Days — The Innocents’ Day (December 28) (1)
Blessed Saviour, whose life in this world began with the slaughter of helpless infants at Bethlehem, and who knowest the sorrows of the human heart: Show thy compassion, we pray thee, on all who suffer and grieve amid the cruelty and injustice of the world; and teach both them and us that by thy grace life’s bitter things can be redeemed and turned to thy praise. We ask it for thy mercy’s sake.
