Readings: 1 Jn 1.5 to 2.2 / Ps 123 / Mt from 2.13 to 18
NIGHTMARE
verses omitted in the celebration of the Holy Family, are taken from today's liturgy to celebrate the memory of the Holy Innocents all those "children who were in Bethlehem and in all of its territory and had two years off" (Mt 2:16) at a time when the Son of God came into the world. Although the number of these innocent victims should be imagined certainly small compared with many other massacres that history has paraded before our eyes, nevertheless raises a serious disturbance in us to think that killing one of the first consequences of Christmas. Even disturbing is the fact that the Church celebrate him as a party, saying that "the Holy Innocents' God is" glorified, not with words but with blood "(Prayer).
course, in the broken lives of these children, who can not die because of Christ, we see represented, and somehow redeemed of all the righteous blood from Abel to Zechariah (cf. Lk 11 51), the most famous unknown to most innocent of all murder perpetrated over the centuries. We can even capture the most clear foreshadowing of the sacrifice of Christ, the Son innocent who died "once for all for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous" (1 Peter 3:18), to bring God to humanity.
But the key to access more adapted to today's feast is offered by its reflection of the apostle John, who turns the "cry" (Mt 2:18) of our disappointment in a sincere look into the mystery of our heart: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us so our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us "(1 Jn 8.8 to 10).
In the atmosphere of this dramatic liturgical feast, we are invited to walk that distance, never short, that separates what we say we are from what we really are until you see and accept the presence of a strong ambiguity in us, manifested especially when we are ousted from the chair of our security and our powers. The wrath of Herod, which does not allow you to take 'fun of him "(Mt 2:16) and felt like a nightmare for the coming of a Messiah, has no justification. However, even the "darkness" (1 Jn 1:5) who live in and where we often walk can easily be justified or understood. We only know that "God is light and in Him is no darkness" (1.5) and that "we have a Paraclete with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous "(2.1). This awareness softens the horror aroused by the memory of innocent blood, becomes hope "for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world" (2.2). A hope that some comfort, but also needs to strengthen us in the process of conversion that always starts with a realization: the innocence is before us and is won by the blood of a successful life and a life of total dedication. There is no other way to escape the nightmare of Herod, we can turn into a nightmare for our brothers, especially for children.
Saturday evening December 4 meeting at 20.00 at the restaurant Dordoni, warning that the price of dinner is set at € 25. Please note that during the evening will collect fees for the year 2011 amounted to € 50.00. 
