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Tuesday 18 January 2011

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

In 2011, the materials, prayers and worship for the Week of Prayer have been devised by the Christians of Jerusalem, from the Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the Latin Catholic Patriarchate, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Armenian Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church, not forgetting the Maronite, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic and various Evangelical communities that also exist in the City and the Holy Land.

Follow this link to the website of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland for the UK & Eire versions of the resources.

As we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, 18 to 25 January, we give thanks to God for the vast contribution made by the Christians of Syriac and Arab ecclesial families to the formation of Christianity's tradition and to its future.

And in the words of Father Paul Couturier, who reanimated the Week of Prayer in the 1930s and caused it to be the universal Church's celebration of faith, hope and love for visible unity and communion that we know today, we pray for the unity of all humanity in the charity and truth of Christ.
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3 comments:

  1. priest's wife - S.T./ Anne Boyd Tuesday 18 January 2011 at 16:11:00 GMT

    Thank you so much for this- sadly, I didn't know about this week of prayer

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  2. Society of St John ChrysostomSunday 23 January 2011 at 09:34:00 GMT

    Please see http:///weekofprayer.faithweb.com and http://www.paulcouturier.org.uk
    for more of the history and information - there are some roots in Catholic encounters with Orthodox diaspora and refugees after the First World War

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  3. Archpriest MichaelSaturday 21 January 2012 at 03:09:00 GMT

    With this week of Christian Unity it is a shame that more people don't know about the messages of UNITY as given by Our Lady of Soufanieh in Damascus, Syria since 1982. The Holy Theotokos asks for Unity of hearts, Unity of Christians and Unity for the celebration of Holy Pascha! Our parish website has links, videos & history of "The Miracle of Damascus."

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