Even in our contemporary secularised society, the principle of some kind of solidarity of spirit expressed by observing a common moment of time is coming to be seen as the 'minute of silence' in response to a national or international tragedy, where people are united nation-wide or even world-wide by a common public pause in their daily routine as a way of showing respect and sympathy for victims and mourners. People of faith and those with no religious belief participate in this 'secular liturgy of time' - showing how deep within the human psyche this belief is - whether organised nationally or internationally, or completely spontaneous as in ...