The Rev. Matthew A. Laferty, director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome, met Ms. Isay Brown, chair of the World Methodist Council youth and young adults committee, and the Rev. Sam Murillo, World Methodist Council youth and young adult president, on Wednesday, 14 April 2021 to discuss their work with the World Methodist Council, their vision for engagement of young people in the WMC and the broader ecumenical movement, and MEOR’s work.
The Rev. Matthew A. Laferty, director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome, met the Rev. Dr. Mario Fischer, general secretary of the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE), on 8 April 2021 to discuss the Communion’s work, CPCE’s dialogue with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Methodist interconfessional engagement in Europe, and Protestants in Italy. CPCE is a Vienna-based interconfessional body of 95 Lutheran, Reformed, and Methodist churches that strives to realize full communion and foster cooperation for witness and service in the world.
MEOR director Matthew A. Laferty met Methodist Church Britain youth president Phoebe Parkin, United Reformed Church youth moderator Reuben Watt, and 3Generate representatives Izzy and Martha on Wednesday, 7 April 2021 to discuss their work, hear how issues of climate justice and mental health are important to young people in Britain, and share about the importance of Christian unity.
The Rev. Matthew A. Laferty, director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome, met the Rev. Dr. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, in an online encounter today. Dr. Shastri is a pastor in the Methodist Church in Malaysia and a member of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission, the official bilateral dialogue commission between the World Methodist Council and the Holy See. They discussed Dr. Shastri’s work on moral discernment with the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches as well as his contributions to the international Methodist-Catholic dialogue.
Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!
Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!
– “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” by Charles Wesley (1739)
May the power and hope of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ fill your hearts!
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