Diocesan News
Remembrance Sunday: Archbishop of Dublin’s sermon in TCD Chapel
A service for Remembrance Sunday, 8 November 2020, took place via Zoom from Trinity College Dublin’s Chapel. Archbishop Michael Jackson was the preacher and following the service the Provost laid a wreath at the Hall of Honour.
In his sermon the Archbishop said: “On this Solemn Day of Remembrance, we need to wrestle and to treasure memory not as something relating solely to the past but as something relating to the future. The anxiety of the Christians of Thessalonika has not gone away on Remembrance Sunday 2020. We are still caught in the storm of an argument about where we who live stand in relation to those who have died.
“This question is particularly poignant and particularly forceful in relation to those who have died in Two World Wars. We remember locally today in particular those who, as Members of this University, served and lived and served and died in both World Wars. We are committed to peace and we are committed to justice. Others have been thus committed before. We are committed to diversity and to inclusion. Others have been thus committed before. We are committed to freedom and opportunity for all. Others have been thus committed before”.
You can watch the Archbishop’s sermon in this video or read the text here.
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Diocesan Communications Officer, Dublin & Glendalough
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Mrs Lynn Glanville
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