Archbishop Buendía swished to the little enclave already planted with bee-friendly flowers, to sprinkle and incense the hives
“The bee is small among flying creatures, but what it produces is the best of sweet things.”
That was the one-verse (11:3) reading from the Book of Sirach at a service of blessing in the gardens of the Jesuit-run Campion Hall, Oxford, on 3 August. The object of the blessing: two glistening cedar-wood hives in a new apiary. The one blessing: the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, whose Spanish accent made apiary sound very digital. “May this appiary,” he intoned, “become a sign of attentiveness, shared labour, learning and hope, and may it deepen our care for the whole community of creation.”
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