El Arzobispo de Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, ha enviado la carta de Adviento siguiente a los Primados de la Comunión Anglicana y Moderadores de las Iglesias Unidas (el texto no está traducido debido a su complejidad y a la necesidad de mantener la fidelidad del mensaje expresado en el mismo):
‘Your real life is Christ and when he appears, then you too will appear with him and share his glory!’ (Colossians 3.4)
St Paul writes as though the reality of Christ’s life in his people never completely becomes visible in this life, in this world: the deepest truth of who we are in Jesus Christ is hidden. When we try to pretend that the holiness of Jesus is triumphantly visible in the Church, we are in danger of turning our minds away from the fact that the enduring power that sustains the Church is Christ alone, not our measures of success or coherence.
But it is still true that – as Paul can say elsewhere, in II Corinthians, for example – the glory of the future can be seen from time to time in lives that are fully turned to the face of Jesus. As we advance into Advent, we need to keep both these insights in our minds: the treasure of the gospel is in earthenware pots, yet the glory of Christ can be seen in human faces. We have not arrived at the end of all things, but we long for it because we have seen something of its radiance and joy in the life of the Christian community and its worship and service.
