The Lord’s Prayer

Perhaps we may feel the need to be forgiven for something which we may have said or done. “Forgive us our trespasses”.

Maybe we need the grace to forgive someone who has wronged us, “As we forgive those who trespass against us”.

Or perhaps we are struggling with a particular temptation in our life at this time; “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”.

At the Mass the priest asks God to grant us peace and unity. Nobody needs us to be reminded of how fractured our world and church have become, which makes this an especially powerful moment in the liturgy. Here we embrace the whole world. Jesus has loved us in this Eucharist by sharing his peace with us and now we share the peace and the love of Jesus Christ with those around us. This is symbolic of the way we are called to take the peace and love of Jesus Christ into the world.

Everybody has had their hearts broken by something or someone. Jesus wants to soothe and heal our broken hearts. He offers his peace to us to heal our broken hearts and invites us to pass that piece on to others.

We offer that sign of peace to others around us at Mass.

At Mass the choir decides whether the Our Father will be sung or recited. At home I will sternly insist that the Our Father be said, slowly, along with the Hail Mary.

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The report estimated the company transported 34,000 slaves "in crowded, unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane conditions" during its 30 years of operation.

Forward to February 5 from BBC NewsGrenada

A UK family will publicly apologise to the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada, where its ancestors had more than 1,000 slaves in the 19th Century.

The aristocratic Trevelyan family, who owned six sugar plantations in Grenada, will also pay reparations.

BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan, a family member, visited Grenada in 2022 She was shocked that her ancestors had been compensated by the UK government when slavery was abolished in 1833 - but freed Africanslaves got nothing.

For BBC producer Koralie Barrau, an American who's a descendant of slaves on Haiti, staring at these artefacts during a visit to Grenada last year for the BBC produced a visceral response. "It's sickening. I look at these neck braces, these handcuffs for children, these whips. And it could have been me. Five or six generations back. This is what my ancestors had to endure and it's very chilling."

Speaking to the BBC in a personal capacity on Saturday, Ms Trevelyan recalled her visit to the island for a documentary. "It was really horrific... I saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when I saw the instruments of torture that (please turn to page 3)