You who dwell in the shelter of the lord
Who Abide in his shadow for life
Say to the Lord:" my refuge,
my rock in whom I trust!"

And he will raise you up on eagles wings,
bear you on the breath of dawn
make you to shine like the sun
and hold you in the palm of his hand

It has been said that the hardest thing that any one of the other twelve disciples had to do was to put up with the other eleven...

Jesus, make our hearts ever gentler and more humble,
so that we may present to those you have confided to our care,
and in this way make us instruments of your love
which gives life and joy and real freedom

There is an episode in Sartre where a man turns up for an appointment in a cafe and sits down at a table to wait for his friend. The friend doesn't come. The cafe is full of people. And there is a sentence which runs something like, 'my friend who was absent was more present than all the other people who were there.