[281.1] THAT LOVE MAY TRIUMPH OVER FEAR

Tonight's vigil for Dr Norman Kember - abducted in Iraq 25 days ago, along with fellow Christian Peacemaker Team colleagues Tom Fox, Jim Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooder - began at 6pm in Trafalgar Square, London. It continues for one hour, but friends and supporters in the UK and all over the world are invited to remember the abducted (all of them, international and Iraqi) over the Christmas period. Pax Christi is inviting people to pray daily at midday wherever they are, and collective vigils are being organised every ten days. See also the updates on the excellent site Free the Captives Now.org. This pithy reflection, highly appropriate to this painful moment, is from Australian poet and artist Michael Leunig (c):

There are only two feelings.
Love and fear.
There are only two languages.
Love and fear.
There are only two activities.
Love and fear.
There are only two motives,
two procedures, two frameworks,
two results.
Love and fear.
Love and fear.

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