Do you know how the robin received his red chest?
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This story comes from an Irish saint who awoke one morning in his hermitage along the coast to find a robin on his window sill. “Have you a song for me?” he asked. To which, in reply, the robin sang a song of Good Friday:
From his nest in a tree, the robin saw the Lord on Calvary, and the Lord saw the little brown bird. Christ acknowledged the robin who then fluttered upon him and sang above the jeers, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty” wiping away blood with his chest and singing sweetness for his ears. Mary then spoke to say, “As of this day, you shall forever be known as Christ’s own bird.”
This is the story of how the robin’s chest became red on the day it watched Christ die.
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No matter the cross you carry or bear, sing to the Lord joyfully and remember that if the world hates you it hated him first. Be like the robin when you suffer and sing praise to the Lord Almighty.
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