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15 years ago today, the world changed for ever. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
On the day we now call 9/11, | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:15 | |
For all its shocking audacity, 9/11 wasn't a one-off. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:21 | |
And it's been followed by an increasing number of | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
terrorist atrocities. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
But amidst the horror there are stories of hope | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
and I'm in central London to find them. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Cardinal Vincent Nichols reflects after his own visits | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
to the scenes of the attacks in France. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
The Christian virtue of hope is living an uncertain present | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
in the light of a firm and clear future. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
And we hear from former hostage Terry Waite, | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
25 years since his release from captivity. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Never, ever believe | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
that there's nothing that the ordinary person can't do. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
When we hear shocking news of terrorist attacks, | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
many of us turn to the Church for words of comfort and confidence. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
The hymn writer, Stuart Townend, has tried to find these words | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
in our first song. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
Terror attacks can affect anyone. That's what's so terrifying. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:30 | |
While the grieving goes on for the nearly 3,000 people | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
who lost their lives on 9/11, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
others have had to come to terms with more recent attacks. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
Not least, in France. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
Only a few weeks ago, the lorry attack in Nice, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
followed days later by the murder of Father Jacques Hamel in Rouen, | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
shook the nation and the world. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Members of the French congregation of Notre Dame in London | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
have been looking for answers in these difficult times. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
The answer is kind of silence and prayer. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
Just to try to get to terms with the shock | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
and get to terms with the event itself. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
When praying and when actually centring oneself on Christ, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
we are open to a new way, or Christ's way | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
to deal with the situation | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
because he was also confronted with violence | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
and he reacted in such a way which was peaceful. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Do you feel afraid? | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
No, I wouldn't really feel afraid, I would feel concerned | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
and worried but not afraid. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has just returned | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
from personal visits to Nice and Rouen. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
In both places, there were two things that struck me. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
One was a cry to God. Quite explicitly - | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
"Listen, God, to us, in this sorrow." | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
And the other expression was, "This will not break our spirit, | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
"our desire and determination to live good, human, trusting lives | 0:06:08 | 0:06:15 | |
"is stronger than fanaticism." | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
What do you make of suggestions | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
that churches should be thinking about security now? | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
CCTV cameras, bag searches and so on. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
I think most churches will be very quietly reviewing | 0:06:26 | 0:06:32 | |
their security situation | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
but determined not to be turning people away, | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
not to become fortresses, not to become places where | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
the stranger can't wander in and be welcomed. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
How should we deal with fear? | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
Talk. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:50 | |
Don't bottle it up. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Express it and explore it in a calm and considered fashion. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:58 | |
So hope for you is something that is strong? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
Quite often, people think of hope | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
as being so secure in the present they can face an uncertain future. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
I rather turn it round. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
The Christian virtue of hope is living an uncertain present | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
in the light of a firm and clear future. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
Yes, there will be moments of terrible darkness | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
but in the end, a fulfilment will be there for everyone | 0:07:26 | 0:07:32 | |
who, at least in a marginal way, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
opens their hearts to God and to his design and love. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
It's a painful truth that terrorist attacks occupy | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
more headlines these days than ever. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
One man well qualified to take the long view is Terry Waite, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
who was released 25 years ago | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
from being a captive in the Lebanon for five years. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
Pam has been to meet him. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
Terry Waite is one of the few who knows | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
what it really feels like for a Christian to be held captive, | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
tortured, threatened with execution | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
and lived to tell the tale. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
Since his release, he's continued to devote much of his time | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
to humanitarian and peacekeeping work. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
I've managed to track down Terry Waite here in west London | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
at the YMCA, an organisation that he's regularly been involved with | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
over the last 25 years. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
Meeting with young people and working to give them opportunities | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
is, Terry believes, crucial to building a peaceful future. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
Well, as some people will know, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
I spent almost five years in very extreme circumstances | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
in solitary confinement, chained to the wall in a room | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
with no natural light, and no books or papers for many years. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
All these years on, when you think back on your captors, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:16 | |
who treated you so inhumanly, so cruelly, how do you feel about them? | 0:11:16 | 0:11:22 | |
I didn't fall into Stockholm Syndrome. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
In other words, you know, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
that means that you become totally sympathetic | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
and actually join their side. I didn't do that. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
I wouldn't let them off the hook. I always told them, | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
"I believe what you have done is inappropriate, is wrong." | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
On the other hand, I could understand why they did it. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:43 | |
They had been brought up in a situation | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
where they see nothing but warfare, along comes a charismatic leader, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
persuades them that the way to get what they wish is to fight | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
for it and to behave in the way that they behave. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
If you can understand why people behave as they behave, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
that is at least a step towards resolving the conflicts | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
that exist between people. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
The world has changed a great deal in 25 years. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
You have spoken about your thought that we are slipping | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
towards the start of the Third World War. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
I said that some time ago. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
And you probably noticed the Pope picked up my words. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
I don't think he did, really. But he did actually say the same thing. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
I think it is a serious situation. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
It's a world war that's fought in very, very different ways | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
than it was in World War I, World War II. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
Now, at any given moment, | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
an act of violence can occur anywhere in the world. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
Any given moment, totally unexpectedly and innocent, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
innocent people are killed. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Where is God in all this? | 0:12:52 | 0:12:53 | |
If I was God, I think I'd be despairing at the human condition. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
Somehow we have to learn how to face this new reality | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
and how to get to the root of the issue | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
and to ask ourselves, "Why are people behaving like that?" | 0:13:06 | 0:13:11 | |
What is the cause? | 0:13:11 | 0:13:12 | |
It's not so very long ago that in Syria, Christians, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
Muslims and Jews shared the same place of worship. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:24 | |
That now has broken down and Christians are being persecuted | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
and sent out of that region, and yet, even in that situation, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
Christians and Muslims are still meeting quietly, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
trying to build the barriers. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
I've always said, never, ever believe that there's nothing | 0:13:38 | 0:13:44 | |
that the ordinary person can't do | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
and I think the words of Christ summed it up, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
"Love your neighbour as yourself." | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
And those words, if they're followed, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
will lead you to an understanding of the great mystery that is God. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
That was Blessed Be Your Name by Matt and Beth Redman. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
Our next hymn was also written in the midst of tragedy. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
By a 19th century American lawyer, Horatio Spafford, | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
after hearing that his four daughters had died | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
in a mid-Atlantic shipwreck. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
His wife survived, her two-word telegram, bearing the awful news, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
simply said, "Saved alone." | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
Spafford wrote It Is Well With My Soul in response. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
# When peace like a river | 0:17:22 | 0:17:27 | |
# Attendeth my way | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
# When sorrows like sea billows roll | 0:17:32 | 0:17:39 | |
# Whatever my lot | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
# Thou hast taught me to say | 0:17:44 | 0:17:50 | |
# It is well | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
# It is well with my soul | 0:17:52 | 0:17:58 | |
# It is well | 0:18:00 | 0:18:05 | |
# With my soul | 0:18:05 | 0:18:09 | |
# It is well | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
# It is well with my soul | 0:18:13 | 0:18:19 | |
# And, Lord, haste the day | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
# When the faith shall be sight | 0:18:26 | 0:18:32 | |
# The clouds be rolled back as a scroll | 0:18:33 | 0:18:40 | |
# The trumpets shall sound | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
# And the Lord shall descend | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
# Even so, it is well with my soul | 0:18:49 | 0:18:59 | |
# It is well | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
# With my soul | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
# It is well | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
# It is well with my soul | 0:19:13 | 0:19:20 | |
# It is well. # | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
The terrible events of 9/11 commemorated in this garden, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
in Grosvenor Square, unfolded exactly 15 years ago today. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
The writer of our next song, Father Liam Lawton, | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
discovered that his words had brought hope | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
to one group of New Yorkers in the aftermath of the tragedy. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
I grew up in a home that had a great love of music. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
It was like a second language in our home. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
And then I went to college to do an arts degree. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
I decided to study theology as well and then I was ordained. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
But alongside that, I always kept on the music. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
So I'd been working part-time in the ministry | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
and also doing a lot of music as well, workshops | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
and performances and composing. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
HE PLAYS PIANO | 0:20:33 | 0:20:34 | |
I think the music becomes a language that expresses an awful lot | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
more than maybe words can. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
My uncle was my music mentor. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
And he was tragically killed in a road accident | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
and so for many, many weeks afterwards | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
I found it really, really difficult. I went into a dark place. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
I just didn't want to sing, I didn't want to play, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
I didn't want to do anything. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
Somebody had sent me a card, | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
and there were two lines in it which said, | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
"When the dark clouds veil the sky, I am by your side." | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
It was exactly how I was feeling. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
So I sat down that evening and I penned the words for this, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
and I called it The Clouds' Veil. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
So I sang it and I found it a healing experience for me, | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
where I was. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
And the day after 9/11, I received a phone call from the United States | 0:21:21 | 0:21:27 | |
from the publishers, saying they were putting together the music | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
for the memorial services and they felt | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
that the most appropriate lines were from the piece, | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
The Clouds' Veil. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:36 | |
"When the dark clouds veil the sky, I am by your side." | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
And so they asked if I would allow it to be downloaded freely. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
And then there was a girl who sang in New York | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
and she sang for the first funeral which was for Father Mychal Judge. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
He was the first person to die in 9/11. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
MUSIC: Amazing Grace | 0:21:54 | 0:21:55 | |
And so many of the fire officers and the police officers, | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
their families were present there as well | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
and the song obviously touched a chord with them | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
and they asked that she would sing it at their funerals as well. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
It was very poignant and, you know, very touching for me. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
One of the military chaplains took the song | 0:22:11 | 0:22:16 | |
and they started using it in the Army as well | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
so all the young soldiers who are going out to Afghanistan and Iraq | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
were given a prayer card with the text of the song on it, | 0:22:23 | 0:22:27 | |
and a little crucifix which they could carry on their top lapels. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
My belief is that the world will only be healed through beauty. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
And I find that in places like this here, | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
I think to bring something worthwhile into the world | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
you need a sense of contemplation. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
I think all beautiful music is born out of silence. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
All inspiration, all creativity, needs silence. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
# Even when the sun shall fall in sleep | 0:23:01 | 0:23:07 | |
# Even when at dawn the sky shall weep | 0:23:07 | 0:23:12 | |
# Even in the night when storms shall rise | 0:23:12 | 0:23:18 | |
# You are by my side | 0:23:18 | 0:23:23 | |
# You are by my side | 0:23:24 | 0:23:29 | |
# Held in memory | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
# The thoughts we have of yesterday | 0:23:35 | 0:23:41 | |
# May our future be | 0:23:41 | 0:23:46 | |
# A resting place where love will stay | 0:23:46 | 0:23:54 | |
# Even though the rain hides the stars | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
# Even though the mist swirls the hills | 0:24:01 | 0:24:07 | |
# Even when the dark clouds veil the sky | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
# You are by my side | 0:24:12 | 0:24:18 | |
# Even when the sun shall fall in sleep | 0:24:18 | 0:24:24 | |
# Even when at dawn the sky shall weep | 0:24:24 | 0:24:30 | |
# Even in the night when storms shall rise | 0:24:30 | 0:24:36 | |
# You are by my side | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
# You are by... | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
# My side. # | 0:24:45 | 0:24:56 | |
In July, the Nice lorry attack killed 86 people | 0:25:01 | 0:25:06 | |
and traumatised many more. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
Esther Serwah was on holiday there with her family | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
and stumbled across the scene only minutes after the attack. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:16 | |
A lot of people were running from the promenade to the marketplace. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:23 | |
I saw a lot of people on the floor. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
So, I was standing there looking at this, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:31 | |
and I was wondering, what's all this? | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
That's when I realised that all the people on the floor | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
was dead bodies and that was the saddest thing to see. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
I decided to go to church to pray because I always have faith. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:53 | |
I asked myself why this has to have happened. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
I don't have the answer. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
I have a lot of faith in God. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
And my faith helped me to overcome what I saw. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:10 | |
And I think the Christians, | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
we need to be more united | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
and pray for those who commit such offences. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:22 | |
I think, sometimes, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:23 | |
they themselves don't know the reason why they are doing that. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
Few of us know what to say after a tragedy. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
But some have responded with peaceful action. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
Parishioners at St John on Bethnal Green | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
invited local Muslims to join their Sunday service. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
On behalf of my Muslim colleagues who are here this morning, | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
we condemn all forms of terrorism in this world. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
It's been a great opportunity to be clear about our faith | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
but at the same time to be welcoming | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
and to stand together in solidarity with Muslims too. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
We are here to show that Muslims, as well as Christians, | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
all believe in love and respect and the loss of any life is tragic. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:11 | |
We are here united against every difficulty, every hatred, | 0:27:11 | 0:27:17 | |
every terrorism. We want to pray to Almighty God | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
to bring all peace and happiness. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
I think it's important because blue, green, yellow, Latino, black, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
you know, Jew, whatever. We are all people. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
That is the essence of, you know, our humanity. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
The constraints of faith shouldn't be constraints. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
If we can bond and engage and value each other | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
then we can actually take a step forward | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
and move beyond our comfort zones. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Cardinal Vincent Nichols believes | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
that Christians have good reason to be confident. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
The response for the Christian is to refer all of this | 0:27:54 | 0:28:00 | |
into the light of faith, | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
into the light of Christ's victory over death | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
and to affirm again and again that love is stronger than death. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:11 | |
Make me an instrument of thy peace. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
When there is injury, pardon. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
Where there is doubt, faith. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:49 | |
Where there is despair, hope. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
Where there is darkness, light. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
Where there is sadness, joy. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
As we've heard this week, we may live in troubled times | 0:31:07 | 0:31:11 | |
but peace-making is a choice that's open to all. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
We finish with an uplifting song of praise | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
focusing back on the source of Christian hope. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:22 | |
# My Jesus, my saviour... # | 0:31:27 | 0:31:32 | |
# Talk to me, baby | 0:33:51 | 0:33:52 | |
# I'm going blind from this sweet, sweet craving, whoa | 0:33:53 | 0:33:57 | |
# Let's lose our minds and go for me, baby... # | 0:33:57 | 0:34:01 | |
The world's greatest half-marathon, | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
featuring double Olympic champion Mo Farah. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
The Great North Run... | 0:34:05 | 0:34:06 |