Taking a Google Earth street view stroll down Broad Street in Oxford. Looked down a bit and saw this, the site of the martyrdom of bishops Latimer and Ridley on this day in 1555. This spot was outside the city wall then and it was here that together they were burned at the stake.
May mothers everywhere enjoy a fine Mother’s Day weekend.
Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Søren!!!🍾🍾🌟🌟🎉🎉
‘Captain MacWhirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some men go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror.’
On the third day he rose again
In accordance with the Scriptures
‘So merciful love can descend to everyone. We believe that it does. Can we assume that there are souls perpetually closed to such love? In principle this can’t be rejected. In reality it can become infinitely improbable—just through what preparatory grace can effect in the soul.’
—Edith Stein
‘How mighty is the unbroken world of the It, and how fragile are the appearances of the Thou.’
—Martin Buber, „Ich und Du” - 1923
Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, supported among other things Congolese control of its own mineral wealth. US, UK, and Belgian political and business interests couldn’t stomach this and had him overthrown. He was executed by firing squad this week—thought to be on the 17th but the date is really uncertain—in 1961.
‘The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.’
—Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms, Chapter 34
