Rachel weeping for her children is a grim reminder of the Feast of the Holy Innocents who were children slaughtered by a mad king in a futile effort to preserve the established structures. As I was preparing to read the scriptures for the day, I visited the New York Times site and a series on homeless children caught my attention and made me want to weep for Dasani and all the homeless children victimized by our unjust social structures. Andrea Elliott’s poignant series on Dasani and homeless children sleeping with seven others in a one room shelter infested by mice and littered with mold and torn, soiled mattresses while a bucket serves as a toilet is enough to make one weep (http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/#/?chapt=1). Continue reading →