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Archbishop of Canterbury missed Christmas service with pneumonia | Archbishop of Canterbury missed Christmas service with pneumonia |
(about 11 hours later) | |
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has been diagnosed with pneumonia, Lambeth Palace said on Friday. | |
Welby was unable to deliver his Christmas Day sermon and missed the Canterbury Cathedral service after having been unwell for several days with what was thought to be a severe cold. | |
Lambeth Palace tweeted: “Just to confirm the archbishop of Canterbury @JustinWelby has pneumonia & is resting at home. Thanks for all your prayers & good wishes.” | Lambeth Palace tweeted: “Just to confirm the archbishop of Canterbury @JustinWelby has pneumonia & is resting at home. Thanks for all your prayers & good wishes.” |
Welby had been due to talk about how the true spirit of Christmas could not be captured in fairytale endings, using the example of the first world war’s Christmas truce in 1914. | |
The archbishop had been due to say: “The truce illustrates something of the heart of Christmas, whereby God sends his son, that vulnerable sign of peace, to a weary war-torn world. The problem is that the way it is told now it seems to end with a ‘happy ever after’. | The archbishop had been due to say: “The truce illustrates something of the heart of Christmas, whereby God sends his son, that vulnerable sign of peace, to a weary war-torn world. The problem is that the way it is told now it seems to end with a ‘happy ever after’. |
“Of course we like Christmas stories with happy endings: singing carols, swapping photos, shaking hands, sharing chocolate, but the following day the war continued with the same severity. Nothing had changed; it was a one-day wonder. That is not the world in which we live, truces are rare.” | “Of course we like Christmas stories with happy endings: singing carols, swapping photos, shaking hands, sharing chocolate, but the following day the war continued with the same severity. Nothing had changed; it was a one-day wonder. That is not the world in which we live, truces are rare.” |
Robert Willis, the dean of Canterbury, delivered a homily in his place. |
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