All Along the Watchtower by chalcedon451
“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”
Little has changed across two millennia in the Middle East; today, as in the time of Christ, mothers weep for their children, killed by tyrants who seek to control what they fear will otherwise destroy them. The feast of Childermas has been celebrated on 28 December in the Latin Church (and a day later in the Eastern Church) since at least the fifth century, and as with all feasts of such antiquity, may go back very much further[…]
