Grace Notes : 'Sorry' is a word seldom spoken
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article27536
- Author
- Peers, Michael G. (Michael Geoffrey), 1934-2023
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1995 October
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1995 October
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 8
- Page
- 10
- Notes
- The Primate, Michael Peers, reflects on the effects of the apology he offered to native people for what had happened to them in residential schools. The apology, which was made at the 1993 Native Convocation had important healing consequences then and later. "The first consequence was seen at the convocation: the apology was followed by a healing service .... Saying `I am sorry' has helped [those present] not just to feel free, but to consider taking their own steps towards healing. The words offered freedom and power for people who needed both". The primate also describes how the hearing of the apology had had a healing effect on a man whose family were Metis and who had felt himself excluded from the community. "He identified instantly with the pain of the people in the video, with their moves, to paraphrase the prophet Hosea, to change from `not a people' to `a real people'."
- Subjects
- Apologies - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Residential schools
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Healing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives