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Reflection for Remembrance Day 2020
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Window inside the oratory over Catherine's grave
Reflection prepared by Mary Wickham rsm
'And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
For some reason, when I began to think about this year’s Remembrance Day, those two lines from Christina Rosetti’s poem kept sounding in my head.
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
There seems so much and so many to remember this year, and so much one would want to forget. So much to regret, so much to honour and grieve. Such a volume of remembrance; such a scale of grief; such a deep well of what one would, if one could, forget…’
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