Message du Secrétaire général du COE

The agenda of this meeting and the papers read by the participants will help the ecumenical movement deepen its understanding of life in Christ. Transfigured Christ is the source of spirituality. Accepting Christ means participating in the event of transfiguration and taking Christ to the world. The Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 2006 identified spirituality as one of the programme priorities for the next seven years. The renewed emphasis on spirituality challenges and opens up questions to the WCC. One crucial question it raises is how does life in Christ reconcile spirituality and the application of ethical Christian principles to human situations? While the Council will be reflecting on this question with its member churches and learning from the Orthodox Churches, they should also be learning from the experiences of monastic communities and lay movements.

Encouraged by our past collaboration with the Monastery of Bose, we rest assured that your work and your experience of monastic life of prayer and contemplation will help us in our effort to make the life of Transfigured Christ the vision for a new life in this broken world.

Yours in Christ,

Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia
General Secretary