Farewell o noted relate. e convergence, in the last 5 years, between the C atholic and Anglican churches, after a separation of 400 years was remarkable, Archbishop Goody told a congregation in Saint George's Anglican Cathedral last Saturday.
He was speaking after a Eucharist service to farewell Archbishop Geoffrey Sambell who is stepping down after eleven years. In his address Archbishop Goody
I "It is an honour to claim friendship Archbishop Goody pictured speaking in !and fraternal esteem for the Most Rev. Saint George's Cathedral at a farewell ceremony for Archbishop Sambell (cenGeoffrey Sambell, Archbishop of the tre). At left is Assistant Bishop Michael nglican Church of Perth. Challen and at right Mr John Denton, "It is a privilege to represent the secretary of the general Anglican Synod. tholic Church of Perth in offering im our thanks for his fruitful coopertion, our good wishes for him in his etirement and our prayers that not.withstanding his ill health, he may yet continue to give of his spiritual strength for the support of the People of God. "Pope Paul VI in 1965 greeted the Anglican Communion, as a Sister Church — a Church which like the Montagues and the Capulets had had a long history of estrangement and enmity with her elder Sister. "To me it is a remarkable thing that in 15 short years, the 400 years of separation should have resulted in a conNUMBER: 2216 vergence so great that I may with clear PERTH, WA: December 4-10, 1980 PRICE: 30 cents conscience and rising hope stand with TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388 ************************************************************ you today in common prayer and * kneel with you in united supplication *, for God's graces upon us all. ~XIV "That this should happen in Perth is the result of no onesided effort but, *' under God, to the mutual clasping of *, outstretched hands and to the com- *, mon acknowledgements of common 's3r!, ^ aims backed by the sharing of so many * unchanging Christian truths and parVATICAN CITY: Society will become more human only if people ticipation in twice millenial grace givintroduce into their relationships "not merely justice, but also that ing rites and devotional practices. 'merciful love' which constitutes the message of the Gospel," says the "Archbishop Sambell has been a latest encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II. gently forceful element in that growing The notion of "an eye for an eye and a The Pope has warned against profriendly approach and without him the grammes seeking social justice which are tooth and for a tooth," which Christ chalreunion of our Churches, the prayed lenged, "was the form of distortion of jus- -4E not shaped by love and mercy. for goal of us all, would still be but a Programmes based only on the idea of tice at that time — and today's forms distant hope with seemingly little justice "in practice suffer from distortions," continue to be modelled on it," the Pope 4( Chance of fruition," Archbishop he said in the encyclical Rich in Mercy said. Goody added. "It is obvious that in the name of an 4E released on Monday. "Although they continue to appeal to the alleged justice (for example, historical jus"Ecumenism is first of all a personal idea of justice, nevertheless experience tice or class justice) the neighbor is some- 4( commitment to a spiritual union which shows that other negative forces have times destroyed, killed, deprived of liberty IS immediately attainable by everyone gained the upper hand over justice, such as or stripped of fundamental human rights. •Or in individual prayer to the Holy Spirit "The experience of the past and of our spite, hatred and even cruelty," Pope John that the undeserved grace of united own time demonstrates that justice alone is Paul said. e xternal witness to Christ and his not enough, that it can even lead to the Church may be granted to us. "In such cases, the desire to annihilate negation and destruction of itself if that "What latent strength to present the enemy, limit his freedom, or even force deeper power, which is love, is not allowed Christ to a world which is rapidly forhim into total dependence, becomes the to shape human life in its various dimenfundamental motive for action. sions." getting him would be to our hands if Forgiveness demonstrating mercy was "This contrasts with the essence of jusWe could overcome our remaining problems and march as one under the tice, which by its nature tends to establish necessary in human relationships, the Pope 4( said in the 83-page encyclical. equality and harmony between the parties Sign of the Cross of Christ. 4r page 2) (See conflict." in "This is Archbishop Sambell's Prayer, this is mine too. May the Saints 4************************************************************ of Rome and Canterbury —Gregory and Augustine, Leo and Anselm, Pius arid Thomas — lead him and me, his flock and my flock, to brotherly communion here in Australia as a foretaste of unending companionship in the life to Come."
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