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“Anniversaries can be both joyful and poignant, reminding us of who we are, what we’ve promised, and the years we’ve lived through,” she said. “They remind us of what we can celebrate, what been born from an intention once expressed.”
Anniversaries also remind us of long-ago passions, intentions, and commitments in ways that are tinged with regret or sorrow, she continued.
"The words of the covenant of 1975 move between recognition and intention,” she said. “We have come to see in each other more fully the face of Christ.”
Durber also noted that 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. “What we believe about God means that we should live and act in a way that mirrors that,” Durber said. “Imagine having that kind of zeal for unity here today in a world sometimes as broken and corrupted as the Roman empire was.”
Durber asked: What then might an unbreakable covenant look like? “And how then might our intentions find their fulfilment?” she concluded. “I pray for a deep unity that is visible, that mends wounds, that creates something new and restored from the broken fragments of church history; ambitious, visionary, recklessly enthusiastic, zealous, strong enough to answer with an ‘Amen’ the prayer of Christ that ‘they may be one,’ May it be so.”
