He is risen : presente
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article31261
- Author
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Easter
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 Easter
- Issue
- 113
- Page
- 6-7
- Notes
- Easter sermon of the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered in Canterbury Cathedral on 11 April 2004. The Archbishop describes the ambivalence and horror with which many classical cultures would have viewed the concept and reality of resurrection. He particularly notes how subversive and threatening it would have been to the political power of the day, the Roman Empire. "The gospel of the resurrection announced many great things, but this must have been one of the most disturbing of all. Here and now, God holds on to the lives of all the departed -- including the lives that have been wasted, violently cut short, damaged by oppression. All have worth in his sight. If God can raise as the messenger of his word and the giver of his life a man who has been through the dehumanising process of a Roman state execution, a process carefully designed to humiliate and obliterate, then the imperial power may well begin to worry". In Latin America when the death squads were operating "Christians there developed a very dramatic way of celebrating their faith, their hope and their resistance. At the liturgy, someone would read out the names of those killed or `disappeared', and for each name someone would call out from the congregation, Presente, `Here'. When the assembly is gathered before God, the lost are indeed presente; when we pray at this eucharist `with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven', we say presente of all those that the world (including us) would forget and God remembers".
- Subjects
- Easter - Anglican Communion
- Sermons, English
- Church of England - Sermons
- Easter - Anglican Church of Canada
- Jesus Christ - Resurrection - Church of England
- Memory - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Death - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Location
- General Synod Archives