Catholics support Church of England Pentecost prayer
initiative
(Vatican Radio) The bishops
of England and Wales have urged Catholics to support a ‘week of prayer’
initiative being promoted by the Church of England during the week leading up
to Pentecost Sunday.
The Anglican Archbishops of
Canterbury and York have written to every Church of England parish priest
across the country, suggesting ways in which they can engage with the
initiative entitled ‘Thy Kingdom Come.
The week of prayer from May
8th-15th culminates in ‘Beacon events’ to be held in half a dozen cathedrals
around the country over Pentecost weekend to pray for the renewal of the Holy
Spirit.
To find out more about the
ecumenical impact of this Anglican initiative, Philippa Hitchen spoke to Fr
Christopher Thomas, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of
England and Wales….
Fr Christopher says the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote to the bishops’ conference explaining
about the initiative as a sort of novena before Pentecost, when the Church
remembers the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and how they were sent
out to proclaim the Gospel to the world.
He says the Catholic bishops
wanted to lend their support and were hoping it will develop as an ecumenical
project and as a parallel initiative to the work that’s done in Christian Unity
Week in January. “If you think of Christian Unity week as a reflection on the
unity of the Church ‘ad intra’, within ourselves”, he says, then this event
could be seen as “a combined work ‘ad extra’, out into the world of today”.
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