[VIDEO] Archbishop Thabo addresses the trauma of COVID-19 & lockdown

The Archbishop responds to a request to make his latest Eastertide reflection available for viewing and listening:

Archbishop's Eastertide News & Reflections – Thursday in Easter Week

Dear Parishioners, Clergy and Bishops

Amid current controversies around the coronavirus lockdown, I want to look at a new topic today: our mental health.

Archbishop's Eastertide News & Reflections – Tuesday in Easter Week

A Zoom meeting with young people

Dear Parishioners, Clergy and Bishops

On Easter Monday I had a wonderful discussion with the youth of our Province, from Angola to South Africa to Mozambique, which they joined on the Zoom video-conference facility.

The young people, including those involved with the Provincial Youth Council and the Anglican Students' Federation, as well as others, were exuberant and irreverent, demonstrating a sense of purpose and energy. They believe this time of the coronavirus will come and it will go, and that it will in the end be resolved. I was also touched by a number of their concerns – for example, that priests will continue to be paid despite lockdowns, and that parishioners ought to keep up their giving.

[VIDEO] How the Church complied with Easter lockdown

Archbishop Thabo discusses with the SABC's Morning Live programme how the Church celebrated Easter online:

A Homily for Easter Sunday, DStv Easter channel

The text of a homily preached in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Protea Village, at a service pre-recorded for the DStv pop-up channel for Easter 2020

Let me again welcome you very warmly to this broadcast service, which as I said in my introduction comes to you from a historic place closely associated with South Africa's oppressive past, with our elders' heroic struggle for freedom and now with our hope for the future.

At Easter, we emerged from the long days of Lent – no longer than usual in terms of days or hours but rather in the way it has reached into the depths of our anxiety, our fears, our sense of powerlessness and the limits of our knowledge, as the coronavirus runs rampant across the globe and into every community.

Homily for Easter Sunday, SABC Television

The Crucifix at Bishopscourt

The text of a homily preached in the Bishopscourt chapel and pre-recorded for broadcast by SABC 2 on Easter Sunday 

Readings: 2 Chronicles 7 verse 14; John 14 verse 1

Good morning!

And it is a good morning, because Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!

A Happy Easter to you all, and a warm welcome to the chapel at Bishopscourt, the home of Anglican Archbishops of Cape Town.

The Bible readings I have chosen for today's homily, from the Second Book of Chronicles and the Gospel according to John, evoke images of the pestilences and plagues that have been inflicted on the world throughout history, but also speak of God's promise that if we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways, God will hear us and heal the earth.