Blue Truck, Red State: King Charles III Addresses the Nation

Friday, September 9, 2022

King Charles III Addresses the Nation

H. M. The King recorded his first address to the nation today at Buckingham Palace. In it, he praised his late mother's steadfast devotion to duty and pledged likewise to reign during the remainder of his life. He also announced that he has created his eldest son William Prince of Wales today. The title is not hereditary, but is created anew by each sovereign for the heir to the throne.

The address was broadcast on British television at 6 p.m. London time. An Accession Council will be held in St. James's Palace at 10 a.m. tomorrow, followed at 11 a.m. by a public ceremony to proclaim him King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Meanwhile, tributes to the Queen have appeared all around the world in public and private displays ranging from simple to stunning - an astonishing testimony to how widely and well she was loved.

BBC - In Pictures

The Guardian - In Pictures

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2 comments:

Davis said...: I wish him every blessing - he will need them.; September 10, 2022 at 8:47 AM
Russ Manley said...: Yes, certainly. It's a big job, and too often a thankless one, it seems to me - but I have faith that Charles will be an excellent king. No one could be better prepared than he.; September 10, 2022 at 10:52 AM

Prayer for Peace

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.

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.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu