Sojourner’s Verse and Voice – 30 January 2023

Verse of the day
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

– Matthew 5:4

Voice of the day
… The lesson of Bloody Sunday is that truth delayed makes wounds fester. … we might be better served to reflect on three realities whose value to the process of creating a more humane society … empathy for those who suffer, the state taking responsibility for its own wrongdoing, and telling the truth in public.

– Gareth Higgins, “Bloody Sunday and Telling the Truth”

Prayer of the day
Lord, on this fifty first year since Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland we continue to cry out with the victims of violence throughout the world, “How long, how long must we sing this song? How long? How long?”

– U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”