The King, 76, said that love is the greatest virtue of all in his traditional Easter message on Thursday, April 17
King Charles is spreading the message of love at Easter time.
The King, 76, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, issued a special Easter statement on Thursday, April. 17, before he and his wife Queen Camilla attended a traditional royal event.
Within it, Charles stressed that the work that humanitarians do around the world knows no boundaries, irrespective of religion, background, or faith. His commitment to building bridges between faiths is a message that has run throughout Charles’ public life.
“There are three virtues that the world still needs — faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love,” Charles wrote, echoing the core message of love in all religions.
“One of the puzzles of our humanity is how we are capable of both great cruelty and great kindness,” he wrote at the start of the message.
He added that “scenes that daily come before our eyes — at one moment, terrible images of human suffering and, in another, heroic acts in war-torn countries where humanitarians of every kind risk their own lives to protect the lives of others.”
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Charles added that he has been struck by the people who work in humanitarian fields to help others, and how he “felt a profound sense of admiration for their resilience, courage and compassion.”
The love Jesus showed, he said, “reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”
The message from Charles, who toured Italy with Camilla, 77, for four days earlier this month, came ahead of his annual donation of Maundy money at historic Durham Cathedral in the northeast of England. The ancient ceremony commemorates the alms-giving that was handed out at Easter time in centuries past.
Charles is expected to lead other members of the royal family at Easter Sunday services at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on April 20.
