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What Kind of Egypt Is God Sending You To?
Faith and hope during difficult times
Have you ever noticed how God sometimes uses Egypt as a place of refuge for His people?
In the Old Testament, God sent Joseph to save his people from famine. In the New Testament, another Joseph, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary was instructed by an angel to go to Egypt to escape from Herod.
“…behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord had said through the prophet might be fulfilled, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’” — Matthew 2:13–15 (NABRE)
If you have a devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary, you must also be familiar with the the holy family’s flight into Egypt. It is the event you meditate upon as you pray one Hail Mary and reflect upon the second sorrow of Mary.
The version of this that is included in St. Bridget’s Twelve-year Devotion for the Souls in Purgatory is as follows: