Source: National Catholic Reporter
Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 8 at the age of 96, was the longest-serving monarch of the United Kingdom. As a constitutional queen, she had no political power, though a significant role in the political framework of the nation, and she also had a major constitutional role regarding religion, given that Britain — or at least part of it — has an established church.
That religious role was one that other monarchs have had since the time of the English Reformation, when England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. But what Elizabeth also had, and for which she was deeply respected, was a profound personal Christian faith — a faith she publicly articulated more frequently as she got older.
In 2022, to mark her Platinum Jubilee — she succeeded her father, King George VI, in February 1952 — she was awarded the Canterbury Cross, a special award of the Church of England, for those who have given it exceptional service. Her role as monarch and as supreme governor of the Church of England made it somewhat inevitable that she gave exceptional service — nobody else but the monarch could have given it.
But it was clear from the citation, written by the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, that he and fellow Anglicans were celebrating not only 70 years of her constitutional role regarding the church, but they were recognizing the importance of her personal faith.
He wrote: “Throughout her reign, Her Majesty has duly upheld both the Christian religion and the Church of England in her roles as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Whether in the formality of opening sessions of General Synod or the more intimate context of her personal addresses to the nation and Commonwealth at Christmas, Her Majesty has made manifest her own deep faith and its relevance to all that she undertakes.”
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In his citation for the queen’s Canterbury Cross, Welby commented on how “her subtle understanding of the changing position of the Established Church in England has sustained and encouraged laity and clergy alike.”
This understanding was most apparent in 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee, when she told faith leaders at an event in Lambeth Palace that the Church of England’s role “is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions” but that it “has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country.” At the time, it seemed to go mostly unnoticed, but it was a quiet rewriting about what the Church of England stood for.
Her Christian faith, one of her spiritual advisers told me, was the scaffolding of her life. Though she was supreme governor of the Church of England, it was Christianity, he said, rather than the Church of England, that was most important to her and she endeavored to lead the nation in being more tolerant of other denominations.
Elizabeth II was instrumental in improving relations between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, making many visits to the Vatican to visit different popes and hosting both John Paul II in 1982 and Benedict XVI in 2010 on visits to Britain. No other British monarch, even before the Reformation, had ever done so and the papal visits to Britain and her personal welcome were a remarkable turnaround for a monarchy that once broke so spectacularly from Rome.
The regard for the queen was not just a question of respect for a head of state or for the titular head of a church; it was for her own personal faith. Mindful, though, of her coronation vow to uphold the Protestant religion, she never attended a Roman Catholic Mass, bar the 1993 requiem for her friend King Baudouin of the Belgians.
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TO RAFIQ
🍎 FROM THE FRUIT YOU WILL KNOW ITS TREE 🍎
Thus every good tree bears good fruit, while a bad tree produces bad fruit. Matthew 7:17
And every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Matthew 7:19
If the teaching is true from God, it will surely produce a society full of love, peace, joy and full of useful works for humanity. Truly a blessing for many people.
But if the teaching is heretical, it will produce fruit filled with hatred, discrimination, conflict, murder and poverty from the works of Science and Technology.
It’s very easy to choose the right teaching
THIS IS THE FRUIT OF TEACHING OF JESUS
And according to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, within the next four decades, Christians will remain the world’s largest religion; if current trends continue, by 2050 the number of Christians will reach 2.9 billion (or 31.4%).👍
According to a study from 2015, Christians hold the largest amount of wealth (55% of the total world wealth), 👍
followed by Muslims (5.8%), Hindus (3.3%), and Jews (1.1%).
Kekayaan umat Kristen 10 x dari umat Islam👍
Millions Muslim, Hindu and atheist immigrate to Christian’s nations or countries. Like Europe, Canada, Australia and USA. Mullion Muslims love to live there compared to their own countries or Islamic countries or Middle East.
This is the fact and the truth.
I love very much the teaching of Jesus.
LOVE EVERYONE
“Love your neighbor as yourself. “There is no greater commandment than this,” he said. Matthew 22:37.👍Woww
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.👍Woww
Matthew 5:44
FEED YOUR ENEMIES
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. By doing so you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be defeated by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:20-23👍Woww
LOVE FOREIGNERS
Love the foreigners who come to your country as you love yourself. Leviticus 19:33👍wow
❤️❤️🙏
would have been nice to see if the Christians had practiced what Somi teaches … history tells otherwise (genocide instead here and there and everywhere)
They did not follow the Jesus teaching. Rafiq.
Not all American. Europe and Canadian are good Chridtian. Some of them hypocrite and atheist etc.
Those who killed Christian or Jews followed their teaching from their book.
You can see the difference between Jesus teaching and your book.
GBY Rafiq.🙏❤️
Rafiq
We are talking about the teaching of Jesus and Muhammad.Not talking about some people
I could not find 1 word of Jesus teaching to kill people, hate people, and discriminate other belift etc
in other words, you cannot find in history any example that ‘Christian nations’ practiced what you teach
Rafiq
Most Christians have been giving the freedom to millions Ahmadiyah to worship their belief. No Christian hate Ahmadiyah in Christian Nations. Dont you see that?
Most Islamic nations have been persecuting Ahmadiyah badly.
Which nation do you think better ?
Christian nations or Islamic nations?
GBY Rafiq 🙏🙏❤️
Rafiq. You agree that Queen Elizabeth as a role model for the worlds leader!
Queen Elizabeth was a hood christian. She fllowed the Jesus teaching well, such as:
LOVE EVERYONE
“Love your neighbor as yourself. “There is no greater commandment than this,” he said. Matthew 22:37.👍Woww
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.👍Woww
Matthew 5:44
FEED YOUR ENEMIES
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. By doing so you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be defeated by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:20-23👍Woww
LOVE FOREIGNERS
Love the foreigners who come to your country as you love yourself. Leviticus 19:33👍wow
THE TRUE FAITH
JESUS: I am the Way and the Truth and the Life, no one can come to Heaven except through Jesus or the Bible. John 14:6 Wow👍
I did not find a single word in the Gospel commanding to kill people of different religions. Jesus never killed people and fought wars. Jesus’ hands were clean of human blood. Extraordinary! 👍Woowww
I suggest you to follow Queen Elizabeth belief, you will be a good role model then. Okay Rafiq?