Flight into Egypt

Luke, chapter 2, verse 34 to 35, will highlight that.

The flight into Egypt, the gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 2, verses 13 to 15.

The loss of Jesus in Jerusalem, the gospel of St. Luke, chapter 2, verses 41 to 50.

Mother Mary meeting Jesus on the way to Calvary.

God loves you.

And you're going to have a phenomenal, fantastic day by the grace of the Lord.

Second sorrow, the flight into Egypt.

The Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 2, verses 13 to 14.

She gave birth to us spiritually.

The second one is the flight into Egypt.

So you imagine, here's, we got Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, Immaculate Conception, who's the queen of all the angels.

She could command them to wipe the Herods.

Translated by Velma Swanston Howard.

The Flight into Egypt.

far away in one of the eastern deserts many many years ago grew a palm tree which was both exceedingly old and exceedingly tall all who passed through the desert had to stop and gaze at it for it was much larger than other palms and they used to say of it that some day it would certainly be taller than the obelisks and pyramids where the huge palm tree stood in its solitude and looked out over the desert it saw something one day which made its mighty leaf crown sway back and forth on its slender trunk with astonishment Over by the desert borders walked two human beings.

They were still at the distance at which camels appeared to be as tiny as moths, but they were certainly two human beings.

Does one read those lines, who is poor, who is cast out by those who are dear, who is a stranger in a strange land, who is driven from pillar to post, who is harassed by open foes and wounded by secret enmity? Well, to that one let me say, remember your Lord's poverty and friendlessness.

REMEMBER THE TOSSINGS UP AND DOWN OF HIS INFANCY, THE FRUGAL COTTAGE HOME IN NAZARETH WHEREIN HIS FAMILY WAS FINALLY GATHERED, DESPITE ITS BARENESS AND TOIL, WAS A PLACE OF PEACE AND ABUNDANCE COMPARED WITH THE STABLE, THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, AND THE SOJOURN AMONG ALIENS THERE.

ARE YOU, DEAR FRIEND, TEMPTED TO COMPLAIN OF YOUR NARROW SURROUNDINGS? of your small opportunity to shine before others or of a want of appreciation for your service and gifts and powers by those who should know you oh remember the babe and the long years of his condescension to men of low estate to the cramped surroundings of the carpenter's shed and the sleepy jewish village are you tried sometimes because you have to suffer the hatred or jealousy secret or open, of those for whom you feel nothing but goodwill, and who perhaps once thought themselves happy in your friendship? Well, in such hours remember your master, and the hatred of Herod seeking to kill the child.

Try to call to mind something of the secret, as well as the open bitterness of men, religious and irreligious alike, which began to hunt him while yet in swaddling clothes, and which hunted him still all through his days.

The world of selfishness and power and wealth will kill the divine thing in you if it can.

Between the prince of this world and the prince of the world to come, no truce was possible long ago in quiet Judea.

and no truce is possible now the spirit of the world is still the spirit of murder it is called by other names to-day and under its influence men will tell you that the life of god in you is not to take those forms of violent opposition to wrong and of passionate devotion to right and of burning zeal and self-denial for the loss which they took in jesus the real meaning of their tale is that they are seeking to kill the child but do not be dismayed remember mary's flight into egypt the peril of her son made her regardless of her friends of her reputation of her home of her life she must guard that precious life at any cost at any risk at any loss is there not a lesson in her example let nothing let not all the sum total of this world's pleasures and possessions lead you to risk the life of god in your soul Listen to no voices that counsel friendship or parley or compromise with the world.

The spirit of Herod is in it.

Amen.

The Second Sorrow The Flight Into Egypt Mary's second sorrow comes very suddenly.

Jesus is still a young child when Joseph receives a warning from an angel in a dream.

King Herod is looking for Jesus because he sees him as a threat.

And so when they left, they went by another road to their own country.

this teaches us that we must bring our best gifts to jesus from him we have received everything to him therefore we must return everything we must even suffer and make sacrifices for his love as he suffered and died for us into section six THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT King Herod waited for the wise men to return and tell him where the newly born king was.

When they did not come back, he was very angry.

From what the magi had told him, Herod knew that the child could not be more than two years old.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Bob Scott Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlof Translated by Velma Swanston Howard The Flight into Egypt Far away in one of the eastern deserts many, many years ago grew a palm tree which was both exceedingly old and exceedingly tall.

All who passed through the desert had to stop and gaze at it, for it was much larger than other palms, and they used to say of it that someday it would certainly be taller than the obelisks and pyramids.

Where the huge palm tree stood in its solitude and looked out over the desert, it saw something one day which made its mighty leaf crown sway back and forth on its slender trunk with astonishment.

"How can this be?" said a traveller.

"This palm was not to die before it had seen a king greater than Solomon." "Mayhap it hath seen him," answered another of the desert travellers.

End of The Flight into Egypt.

Recording by Bob Scott.