
Good Friday Message from the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum
Watch the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum’s Good Friday Message to Australians
Watch the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Reverend Hosam Naoum’s Good Friday Message to Australians
“So even as we might reflect on the utter injustice and cruelty of Jesus’ crucifixion and how the world we live in still reflects that cruelty and injustice, we might just pause and think of what was won on that cross,” says Bishop John Roundhill
“A few years ago I walked a set of The Stations of the Cross that had been erected in a farm paddock in the Hunter Valley. The day on which we walked it was hot, dry and dusty. Many of the participants were quite elderly; some were very unsteady on their feet…one of the participants stumbled and fell,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
“Our wars will cease not when we eliminate the humanity in others, but when we truly recognise the humanity of others. Jesus on the cross bridges that great divide,” says Bishop John Roundhill
“As a community, after the Easter Day service we celebrated the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with a big kai kai (feast). People from all over the Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea (which was then still administered by Australia) came via sailing canoes rather than by motor boats, bringing seafood, taro, sweet potato, casava, sago and other traditional foods. We then had traditional dancing with men wearing headdresses made of emu feathers and women wearing grass skirts,” says Uncle Milton Walit from NATSIAC and The Parish of Laidley
“Seeing the Passion of Jesus as being played out in the everyday can heighten our response to those everyday situations. So the children of Gaza become one with the Holy Innocents and Christ loses limbs with Ukrainian soldiers. What are we called to do in response?” asks The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
This year’s Good Friday Gift supported the Diocese of Jerusalem to focus on building on the strengths and extending the capabilities of the youth in the Anglican parishes
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