Lund, Sweden, 20-27 March 2007
Day 6 - Sunday 25 March
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Different Practices
Need Not Threaten Communion
 Archbishop Anders Wejryd. © LWF/D. Jusaitis |
Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd has cautioned churches that their different practices on several matters should not necessarily have to threaten the communion of Lutheran churches as long as the people are clear about the center of their faith.
"All we do in our churches and in our entire lives can and should be related to justification as a gift from God that is to be humbly received and lived by, in faith,” Wejryd told worshippers in his sermon during eucharistic service to mark the 60th anniversary of the LWF at the Lund Cathedral in Lund, Sweden.
 © LWF/D. Jusaitis |
“A true interpretation of the Bible does not only bring people to understand the rules and contents of the Bible but it brings them to Jesus, Wejryd said in his sermon based on Luke 1:26-38. He said although Jesus had shed light on Scriptures it was up to the members of the communion to interpret them, based on the hermeneutical principles and “looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfector of our faith.”
His sermon dwelt on how the unexpected, overlooked or even down-trodden people such as Jesus Christ, and his mother Mary, turned out to be the ones “that give us a future.” More...
Tribute to Fruitful Dialogue
Between Roman Catholic Church and LWF
 Cardinal Walter Kasper. © LWF/D. Jusaitis |
Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute to the “always fruitful” dialogue between the LWF and Roman Catholic Church and the major progress in ecumenical relations after the Second Vatican Council in his congratulatory greeting to the LWF on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.
“Ecumenical fellowship has [grown] all over the world through numerous encounters between Lutherans and Catholics,” said the pope in his greeting read to worshippers by
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. More...
Church Leaders Pay Tribute to LWF’s Leading Ecumenical Role
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the LWF, His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosius of Helsinki, representing the Ecumenical Patriarchate, expressed deep gratitude to the Lutheran churches for all the ecumenical openness and fraternal [and] sisterly love to the Orthodox Church.
Presenting greetings from the World Council of Churches (WCC) on the LWF’s anniversary, WCC Central Committee moderator, Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, expressed appreciation for the “tireless efforts of the LWF to foster throughout the whole communion a Lutheran identity that is ecumenically committed and open to sharing generously its gifts of spirit and resources.” More...
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