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Friday, June 3, 2022
Platinum Jubilee Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's
A service of thanksgiving for the life and reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II was held in St. Paul's Cathedral in London this morning. I haven't found a YouTube video of the complete service yet, but this short news clip shows members of the Royal Family and a few political leaders arriving at the steps of the cathedral. The Queen, "with great reluctance," did not attend the service, owing to ongoing mobility problems; she was represented by the Prince of Wales.
When a full video becomes available, I will post it here. Meanwhile, perhaps my truckbuddies will enjoy hearing one old queen dish about another: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark celebrated her own Golden Jubliee - 50 years on the throne of Denmark - this past January. She is an artist and a delightful personality herself; here she speaks about her long friendship with Elizabeth II.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
2 comments:
Poor old dear - she is hanging in there. Vivat
Yes, still in harness after all these years, and still cheerful too - God bless her.
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