Our Christian roots: The Flight into Egypt

(Vatican Radio) As part of our series of reflections for Catholics accompanying the Cardinals in Rome on their Lenten journey of prayer for the election of a new Pope, we go to the Holy Land to remember the sites and places that played an important role in the life of Christ. Today,Fr. Peter Stravinskas, noted scholar and editor of the Catholic Response, takes us on the holy family’s flight into Egypt.
In his Gospel, St. Matthew tells us that not long after Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem, King Herod planned a massacre of small boys in an attempt to kill the Christ child. Herod believed that Jesus would grow up to threaten his throne. To escape Herod’s deadly plan, Joseph fled to Egypt with Mary and Jesus...
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