CHRISTIANS “must engage in public and political life and economic
life in fostering a society where the lives and gifts of all can
flourish and not just the privileged few,” the Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said.
He has also strongly condemned those
who support violence.
Speaking in the Pro-Cathedral, he
said: “These advocates of violence, like those who condemned Jesus, feel
somehow that they have in their hands the power to achieve their sordid
plans definitively.”
He continued: “The message of Easter which
we proclaim challenges – head on – those in our society who espouse
political violence, criminal violence or the violence of corrupt
exploitation. It challenges those who fall into the purposeless violence
we sadly encounter on our streets.”
The new Church of Ireland
Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough Michael Jackson said that: “Easter
is about transformation.”
In a homily at Christ Church Cathedral
he said: “The first thing such transformation might look like
is that other people recognise features of Jesus Christ in our features
and in our everyday life.
“The second is that we speak confidently
and honestly about what has happened in history and about why it
matters, as you and I listen to one another. This will become abundantly
clear as the decade of anniversaries unfolds in both parts of Ireland
in the decade ahead of us.
“The third is that it is abundantly clear that all we do has consequences here and hereafter.”