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“Amid all the excitement of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, there is one person who was not rejoicing. The gospel tells us that while the crowd cheered, Jesus shed tears. In that moment is an uncomfortable tension between the celebration and the sadness…a tension we all know at different times in our lives,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
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“This Christmas when I celebrate the birth of the one we call ‘Emmanuel’, or ‘God with us’, I will say a prayer of thanks for how we have sought to be and to meet ‘God with us’ over this last year, as I look with hope for the year to come,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
“I was recently at one of our schools to talk with Year 6 students about being a leader. Of all the questions asked of me by the Year 6 students, my favourite was: ‘What’s one thing you would tell your 15-year-old self?’…In the mystery of the resurrection that we celebrate at Easter, God tells us again and again: ‘Death does not have the final word…Love endures. Hope wins out’,” says Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
“Ash Wednesday and the Season of Lent present opportunities for us to make the same sort of return. They offer us the opportunity for reflection, sifting and renewal; they are constructed so as to offer us the opportunity to embrace new beginnings,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
The tenth Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane was Installed at St John’s Cathedral yesterday before a 1,000-strong congregation in a service blending ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, signalling the style of the Diocese’s new leader, The Most Rev’d Jeremy Greaves
Dozens of church leaders, including many whose communities have been directly affected by flooding and bushfires, have signed an open letter calling for government leaders to take effective action to protect our climate
“Towards the end of our conversation, the patient said that he felt as though his faith had been awakened. He also looked physically different – when I arrived he looked disengaged and down, but when I left his bedside he was relaxed and smiling. Before I left, he asked to pray for me, which was profound,” says hospital chaplain The Rev’d Peter Mayen
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