Archbishop: "Humility leads us to peace"

(Utrecht) "Modesty makes possible solidarity and solidarity gives us access to a life where we can taste love, God's love," said the Old Catholic Archbishop Joris Vercammen during the New Year's vespers in the cathedral church of Ste. Gertrudis.

The Archbishop said in his sermon on Matthew 12: 14-21, that society is becoming harder. Jesus' ministry on earth shows that we do not have to scream to get attention, "God seeks apparently not the stage and not the thrill of the high word everyone to silence will bring. God shares the humility and embarrassment of those who broken and threaten to languish. " The victory that this is achieved is not that kind of victory with a ruler imposes his will on a conquered. It is the victory of the solidarity that people reconcile with each other ".

Indispensable for reconciliation between people is modesty. It eventually leads to a higher goal: "Humility and reconciliation are the keys to peace (...) If we wish each other the peace of Christ, then we commit ourselves to that peace."

The Archbishop concludes with the words: "If we meet salvation and blessing wish in the new year, is behind the promise ourselves more modest to draw and reconciliation to search. We tell each other the soft power to give more space . It makes us no less combative around! "

The New Year's Vespers of the old Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht took place last Sunday. The New Year's Vespers of Dick Schoon Bishop of the Diocese of Haarlem took place the Sunday before.