Communion News: Primates washed each other's feet in Canterbury
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38947
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2016 February
- Issue
- 140
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "When the senior archbishops of the Anglican Communion gathered in Canterbury Cathedral in January [2016] they did so against a background of complex disagreements. But despite what the Archbishop of Canterbury [Justin Welby] described as 'quite difficult' discussions, the leaders agreed to 'walk together' and the Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, said that he was 'full of hope for our Church and for the world', as he disclosed that the Primates washed each other's feet and prayed blessings on each other during the final Eucharist in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral on Friday morning [15 January 2016]. 'We read the passage from the foot washing and we passed the basin around and the towel, and we washed each other's feet', he said. 'That's a powerful thing of humility. That's a powerful thing of closeness after a very hard working week'." [Text of entire article.]
- Subjects
- Anglican Communion. Primates Meeting (2016 : Canterbury)
- Foot washing (Rite) - Anglican Communion
- Makgoba, Thabo (Thabo Cecil), 1960-
- Location
- General Synod Archives