Right Reverend Duleep de Chickera conclude his Lambarth sermon at the Eucharist at Canterbury Cathedral by quoting Archbishop William Temple, “‘The Church is the one institution that does not live for itself.’ My dear sisters and brothers, as we move from this wonderful retreat, through this beautiful eucharist into our conference, let us hold on these word. For here is the crux of Anglican identity, and here is the crux of Anglican spirituality. We do not live for ourselves, and all our energy, all our gifts are directed to abundant life for the other.”
It is so very true that church should and must live like the Christ to give life to others. Every Christian’s duty is not to indulge himself with selfishness and self-pity but to look beyond themselves to the decaying and dying world. Only we have the life and we are the people who dare to take radical steps to transform and heal the wounded, which have been overlooked and trampled by many.Picture: Poverty and Wealth by William Powell Frith, RA. Signed and dated 1888 at lower left. Oil on canvas: 32 x 47 inches. Provenance: Christie's, 4th May, 1889, lot 139. Exhibited: The Royal Academy, 1888, no. 26.
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