Comment on attacks in Brussels

March 31, 2016

Commenting on the Brussels attacks on 22 March, the Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church said: “’We were expecting something like this’ – Simple words of people in Brussels which express the dreadful reality with which we all live.  The indiscriminate acts of terrorism which we have seen in Brussels are part of a struggle between different world views.  Our prayers are with those who have been bereaved and injured, with the emergency services and with all who have seen and been part of things which will affect them profoundly in the future.

“In Holy Week, we hear over and over again the story of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ and we feel the pain of his cruel death.  Yet we also believe in the Easter gospel of hope – the defeat through God’s power of sin, failure, loss and death itself.  That is the pattern of our faith. May it be the pattern for our world.”

The attacks in Brussels were referred to in a number of the Bishop’s Easter Sermons and in the Good Friday and Easter message from the Primus, which you can read here.

Some of the Bishops’ Easter Sermons are available on diocesan websites.  A short reflection from the Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, Bishop of Argyll & The Isles can be read on the Scottish Episcopal Church website  here