[NYer]

Nonetheless, there is another message that emanates from this venerable Tomb, before which we stand at this moment. This is the message that history cannot be programmed; that the ultimate word in history does not belong to man, but to God. In vain did the guards of secular power watch over this Tomb. In vain did they place a very large stone against the door of the Tomb, so that none could roll it away. In vain are the long-term strategies of the world's powerful – everything is eventually contingent upon the judgment and will of God. Every effort of contemporary humanity to shape its future alone and without God constitutes vain conceit.

A truly powerful and profound statement!!

[Tax-chick]

I’m very moved to see the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarchs meeting in the Holy Land. I agree with His Holiness Bartholomew: God is always doing things we haven’t programmed, aren’t anticipating, and don’t really understand. “For my ways are far above your ways, and my thoughts are far above your thoughts.”