St Macartin's
Cathedral, Enniskillen
Sunday 9 November
1997
An excerpt from
an address by the
MOST REVEREND
DR ROBIN EAMES,
ARCHBISHOP OF
ARMAGH, PRIMATE OF ALL IRELAND
Remembrance' is
a word of many parts. It is one of the most emotive terms in our English
language. Like many words of deep meaning we tend to use it at times with
little thought for its real significance. It stands for human memories
of the past, for memories of faces, voices, the touch of a hand, human
friendship - it stands for events and happenings in our family life or
the life of our community - it stands for images, pictures, impressions.
It is a word of reflection - a sombre word, for our memories are themselves
a strange mixture of good and bad, happiness and sorrow.
There are things
in life we want to forget just as there are those we recall with pride
and satisfaction. 'Remembrance' is that sort of word. Perhaps the real
truth is that more important than what we remember is how we remember -
and what effect those memories have on us as people here and now. As someone
has written -
"remembrance is
what makes us what we are ..." |
