Thought For The Day – Thursday 26th March 2026
Go Together
The first picture above: A student-led practice before our Lent and Easter services of “The Passion Play”.
The second picture above: Archbishop Sarah Mullally is enthroned on the Chair of Saint. Augustine in Canterbury Cathedral. This second picture is from Lambeth Palace.
In our Lent and Easter services earlier this week, we reflected on the story of Archbishop Sarah Mullally.
Yesterday, at the commencement of a traditional ceremony, Archbishop Mullally knocked on the door of Canterbury Cathedral three times, with her Bishop’s staff, before being allowed to enter the cathedral.
Symbolically demonstrating ethical and moral service, Archbishop Sarah was questioned by local school students at the door of the cathedral.
This was an historic moment for, as we heard at our Lent and Easter services, Archbishop Sarah is the 106th, and first ever woman, Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Sarah describes women as half “The Body of Christ”.
It is certainly not a vocation, and role, Archbishop Sarah could have foreseen when she became a Christian as a teenager, when women could not be priests in the Church of England.
These last few days, in preparation for her enthronement yesterday, Archbishop Sarah has been making a special and timeless pilgrimage, walking from London, where she was Bishop, to Canterbury.
Before being called to ministry in 2012, Archbishop Sarah worked as a nurse for thirty-five years in the National Health Service, where she became the youngest ever nursing officer. Archbishop Sarah demonstrates how the important endeavours and disciplines of Science and Religion can be, and are, partners, asking questions of how and why.
Archbishop Sarah, sees herself as a humble shepherd looking after others, making God known through acts of kindness and love.
Archbishop Sarah understands the challenge and vital importance of inclusively looking after all with integrity.
Archbishop Sarah has quoted an African proverb that says: ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
