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Archbishop Neill's New Year message
NEW YEAR MESSAGE 2005
The Most Revd Dr John Neill
Archbishop of Dublin
The New Year is an opportunity to hope. We hope for a better future for the peoples of Iraq, of Israel/Palestine, of the Sudan and of Northern Ireland. But the New Year reminds us too that the way ahead is full of uncertainties. This is why we should pray for God?s help and the courage to work for peace in the world. This includes challenging those who seem ever more anxious to rush to war at whatever cost. The tragedy of Iraq shows the futility of war.
Hopes and uncertainties abound at the beginning of a new year. There is so much we can do, and so much that is beyond our control. The Christian message does not provide easy answers or quick solutions. Instead it points to God?s way as shown in the life death and rising of Jesus Christ. This is a way of peace and of forgiveness and of love. In Jesus Christ we see the power to transform the New Year into something to be faced with joy and without fear.
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