Saturday, September 19th

                      Antiphon on 

                      Psalm 75

God does 

not judge 

by what 

the eye 

sees, but 

in truth 

and equity.

I really love this antiphon 

- its one I really need to remember! - 

and am always happy to have an image  to illustrate it. Today the image is, well picture perfect to illustrate it! And it's thanks to my nephew Sean who wrote me that today is ITLAPD (International Talk Like A Pirate Day.) So, ARRRRRRRRGH! and Happy Day! 

Turns out that TODAY is actually the feast of Theodore of Tarsus. Today YESTERDAY was the commemoration of Dag Hammersgold. Born in Sweden in 1905, he was the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash of unknown cause over what was then Zambia on September 18 1961.He had been involved in a peace keeping mission in the Congo. He was awarded  the Noble Prize posthumously that year. (From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously. ) “It was only after his death that the world learned that his private faith guided his public role.”(said Give us this Day who gave us both the quote and the commemoration.)  His spiritual journal is called Markings which according to the blurb on Amazon, “concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle," first published in 1964.”

Pray 

for 

the mis-sion and mem-bers of the United Nations the as they begin their 70th session. Pray that the world community can come together and address the FLOOD of refugees flowing from war and terror.  (One place to give is to USA for UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees)                                              Ban Ki-moon, 

the 8th & current current who as  Secretary-Gen-eral, in his second term, was himself helped as a small child in war 

torn Korea.