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Archbishop Sarah‘s Easter Message

April 3, 2026 at 9:23 pm Leave a comment

As the King has decided not to issue an Easter message this year, RapidHammer wants to wish you a Happy Easter pointing to the newly installed Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter letter. Sarah Mullally was installed as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation.
This is her first ecumenical Easter letter as Archbishop of Canterbury:

▶️ Ecumenical easter letter 2026

In her statement, Archbishop Sarah said that the message of the gospel is not an abstract hope but a “living reality” that could give strength and comfort to all of humanity.

She quoted Dietrich Bonhoeffer who, writing from prison, reflected that “only a suffering God can help.” These words remind us that in Jesus Christ, God does not stand distant from human pain, but enters into it, bears it, and transforms it.

The cross and the empty tomb together tell us that suffering and death do not have the final word. Suffering and pain are penultimate; ultimate is the loving embrace of God in glory. Easter proclaims that even in the darkest places, God is at work bringing life.

Pointing to the words of Jesus: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies… it bears much fruit,” the Archbishop said that Easter invites each of us to entrust ourselves anew to this mystery. What in our lives, our churches, and our relationships must be surrendered so that God may bring renewal? The resurrection assures us that no act of faithful surrender is ever wasted.

Easter calls us to live from this hope: to trust in the victory of Christ, to stand alongside those who suffer, and to bear witness with renewed confidence to the Gospel. In a wounded world, we are called to be people of resurrection – people who live not in fear, but in hope; not in despair, but in the promise of new life.

The Archbishop closed her letter with: As we celebrate this holy season, may the joy of Easter renew our faith, strengthen our fellowship, and deepen our commitment to one another in Christ.

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