From The Church Times-THE spirit of St Francis was present in Assisi this week, as Anglican and Orthodox church leaders joined Pope Francis and representatives from other faiths at the small Italian town to pray for peace.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, invited to address participants, spoke of the illusion of wealth. “Our money and wealth is like the toy money in a children’s game: it may buy goods in our human economies that seem so powerful, but in the economy of God it is worthless.”
Instead, he said, God speaks to us through those who have nothing, the most helpless, and the poorest. “We need to be reminded daily of our poverty in spirit, to thirst for the riches of God’s mercy.”
Archbishop Welby was joined by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb, the leading religious authority in Sunni Islam. All took part in a conference, “Thirst for Peace: Religions and cultures in dialogue”, organised by the Community of Sant’Egidio and the diocese of Assisi.
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https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/23-september/news/uk/welby-don-t-count-god-s-wealth-in-monopoly-money
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