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Partial reading for June 1st 2012 but is also the feast of Saint Justin, martyr (sometimes read as if martyr is his proper last name, it is not) so you may find an alternate second reading related to the specific feast day. For capture I used a screw-on close-up lens, not reflected in the EXIF data.

The sharpening looks bad in standard size, better in
this size

Remembering those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so others may live.

Psalms 69:15
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

a preference for barren rock, see below picture in comment too.
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title inspirations

In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open

Genesis 7:11 Douay-Reims (DRC)

"A fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer" — John Donne