All Saints Day in Poland - 1 November 2024 - A Triumph of Humanity to be considered in the face of the murderous present - A Memory Recalled in a Time of Great Danger
This is a particularly significant, symbolic and resonant All Saints Day and All Souls Day, recumbent in the shadow of war. I have found it so difficult to sleep in recent weeks and particularly last night. In Ukraine accurate reports are difficult to unearth, concealed for 'security reasons' but in the conflict sources indicate hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far. In the Middle East there are even more terrible statistics concerning Palestinian civilians and now horrors in Lebanon. The flawed human consciousness of the sacred nature of life throws me into despair. Death and injury is barbarously forced upon thousands of blameless children. And the appalling silence concerning the barbarism, loss and displacement of millions on an unimaginable scale in Sudan ... This situation has thrown me into complete mental confusion, horror and repugnance. The repetition of hatreds I thought had gone forever break like a wave once ...