Patriarch Athenagoras

This day, Patriarch Athenagoras enters the life of eternity.  With him we lose a man of the same prophetic vein as John XXIII.  He had no lack of trials in his final years...  Nevertheless, he was always optimistic.  "In the evening, when I retire to my room," he told me once, "I close the door on all my cares, and I say:  Tomorrow!"

Br. Roger of Taize, written July 7, 1972