{"id":32938,"date":"2012-12-28T20:17:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/?p=32938"},"modified":"2015-08-31T01:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:42:02","slug":"childermas-or-kindermord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/childermas-or-kindermord\/","title":{"rendered":"Childermas or Kindermord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/thequickandthedead\/childermas-or-kindermord\/attachment\/kindermord\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32939\" title=\"Kindermord\" src=\"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Kindermord-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a>Often called Childermas or Kindermord, the Sunday between Christmas and Epiphany traditionally solemnizes the slaughter of the children of Judea by Herod. It provides focus for the Christian\u2019s commitment to protect and preserve the sanctity of all human life\u2014thus serving as a prophetic warning against the practicioners of abandonment and infanticide in the age of antiquity, oblacy and pessiary in the medieval epoch, and abortion and euthanasia in these modern times. Generally set aside as a day of prayer, it culminates with a declaration of the covenant community\u2019s unflinching commitment to the innocents who are unable to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo unto others as if you were the others.\u201d\u00a0 Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIf I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.\u201d Martin Luther<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAll the starry hosts of heaven and of earth declare with one voice the glory bestowed on these sublime creatures of the Living God, these creatures made just a little lower than Himself.\u00a0 We can do no better than to acknowledge our acceptance of Him by our acceptance of them.\u201d Dympna of Gheel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe Modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.\u00a0 The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.\u00a0 Thus some scientists care for truth; but their truth is pitiless.\u00a0 And thus some humanitarians care only for pity; but their pity&#8211;I am sorry to say&#8211;is often untruthful.\u201d G. K. Chesterton<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often called Childermas or Kindermord, the Sunday between Christmas and Epiphany traditionally solemnizes the slaughter of the children of Judea by Herod. It provides focus for the Christian\u2019s commitment to protect and preserve the sanctity of all human life\u2014thus serving as a prophetic warning against the practicioners of abandonment and infanticide in the age of antiquity, oblacy and pessiary in &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/childermas-or-kindermord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,78,766],"tags":[477,791,373,374,459],"class_list":["post-32938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-life-and-sanctity-of-life","category-thequickandthedead","category-holidays-and-celebrations","tag-glory","tag-christmas","tag-abortion","tag-infanticide","tag-battle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34381,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32938\/revisions\/34381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}