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Michael Curry: "As if your voice, one of your songs, one of your descendants had been there that day"
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The American priest Michael Curry connects deep spiritual thoughts with the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018. As Curry now reported to the US magazine "People", he even felt the presence of the deceased immediately after his sermon.
"It was like I could sense the slaves," said Curry.
At the wedding service he had quoted the black civil rights activist Martin Luther King and emphasized the political dimension of love as a counter-model to strength and hardship: "Do not sentimentalize love," said Curry at the time, "love has power. Love can help and heal when nothing else can. "
"I don't mean to be scary, but it was like her voice was heard that day," Curry said now.
He had also included the traditional African-American song "There Is a Balm in Gilead" in the sermon.
"It was as if her voice, one of her songs, one of her descendants had been there that day. The Queen was very benevolent," said Curry, referring to Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. It was a sign of hope for him that someone descended from former slaves who were probably brought from Africa to America by British slave traders could now quote a song of the slaves before the Queen of England.
"That gives hope that we don't have to be what we always were," said Curry.
Curry is the bishop of the American Episcopal Church.
In his new book "Love is the Way" he looks back on personal crises and gives advice on how to overcome challenges.
According to "People", Curry also addresses his past as a human rights activist and his work for the recognition of the LGBTI community in the Episcopal Church.
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