Today is the Octave of the Holy Innocents. Since it falls on Sunday this year, the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus supersedes it. However the Holy Innocents would still be commemorated.
"The Holy Church, which on the Feast is vested in the colour of mourning, and this out of condolence with Rachel's grief, now on the Octave Day clothes herself in the red of her Martyrs, in order to honour these Babes who shed their Blood for Jesus. Notwithstanding, she is full of tender compassion for those poor Mothers, who suffered such agonies of grief at the sight of the murder of their little ones; she continually allude to them in to-day's Liturgy,"
The Liturgical Year, Volume 2 by Dom Gueranger
Holy Innocents, pray for us!
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