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| The Rosetta Stone (close up) |
Listen to an audio recording of this reflection at this link. Hello and welcome to St Stephen Walbrook and our Start:Stop reflection, when we start the day by stopping for ten minutes. Please come and go as your schedule dictates.
Two hundred years ago today, a brilliant French linguist, Jean-François
Champollion, announced in Paris a breakthrough in translating the Rosetta
Stone. His discovery allowed scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics,
transforming the western discipline of Egyptology and turning the Rosetta Stone
into an icon of our attempts to understand other languages and cultures - and
decoding just about anything.
The 27th September also marks the day the church remembers St Vincent de Paul,
a French priest who decoded the purpose of his life and calling when he was
summoned to hear the confession of a dying servant. Ten years after he was
ordained, Vincent came to understand God’s universal language - of love.
This morning’s bible reading is taken from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians:
