for 2nd June

I never thought I would be quoting the pope's intention but this one (both pope and his intention) is so different: (for tomorrow 2nd June)
“For those around the world who still suffer slavery and who are victims of war, human trafficking, drug running, and slave labour. For the children and women who are suffering from every type of violence. May their silent scream for help be heard by a vigilant Church so that, gazing upon the crucified Christ, she may not forget the many brothers and sisters who are left at the mercy of violence. Also, for all those who find themselves in economically precarious situations, above all for the unemployed, the elderly, migrants, the homeless, prisoners, and those who experience marginalization. That the Church’s prayer and its active nearness give them comfort and assistance in hope and strength and courage in defending human dignity.”

Carey on gay marriage

 . . . . is startingly reactionary. On the other hand:
"On Thursday the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev Nicholas Holtham suggested in a letter to the Telegraph that it was time to "rethink" attitudes about same-sex marriage, as Christians had done with slavery and apartheid.
"No one now supports either slavery or apartheid. The Biblical texts have not changed; our interpretation has."
He argued that same sex marriage did not "detract from heterosexual marriage" and that the "development of marriage for same sex couples is a very strong endorsement of the institution of marriage"." 
 
I copied this from the BBC news site.

Eckhart: The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me.

Through the psalms, there are moments when I understand this. Sometimes, words that the psalmist is addressing to you are suddenly being spoken, by you, to me. 

bernardine bishop the novelist, who has terminal cancer: "when people talk about the afterlife I start imagining it and when one starts imagining it, it seems untrue."

cause for hope in the middle east?

Obama in Israel: " . .It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day. . . . . (The Israeli students who were listening gave this rapturous applause)  The only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realisation of an independent and viable Palestine."