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    I am my brother’s keeper

    Jun 26, 2024 2 minutes

    I used to query the accuracy of ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.’ (Matthew 5:4)

    When we are young, grief feels incomprehensible and wrong. When we get old, the truth of this Beatitude comes into its own: we realise that grief can be

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