Week of Prayer Christian
Unity 2018
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| Pope Francis takes part in an ecumenical celebration (Observator Rome) |
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is underway this week
and runs until the 25th January.
This year’s theme is "Your Right Hand, O Lord, Glorious
in Power" (Exodus 15:6) Apart from this theme there are also different
themes for each individual day which are:
January 18 Welcoming the
Stranger
January 19 No Longer a Slave
January 20 Your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit
January 21 Hope and Healing
January 22 Unity in Christ:
Hearing the Cries of the Poor
January 23 Let us look to the
interests of Others
January 24 Building a Family
in household and Church
January 25 Our Covenant with
God
Caribbean Churches
The resources for this year’s Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity have been prepared by the churches
of the Caribbean.
According to the annual brochure jointly prepared and
published by the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity and the Commission on
Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches, “the contemporary Caribbean
is deeply marked by the dehumanizing project of colonial exploitation.” The
document goes on to say that, “today Caribbean Christians of many different
traditions see the hand of God active in the ending of enslavement. It is a
uniting experience of the saving action of God which brings freedom. For this
reason the choice of the song of Moses and Miriam (Ex 15:1-21), as the motif of
the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2018 was considered a most appropriate
one.”
The daily reflections raise a number of issues facing the
churches of the Caribbean, such as human trafficking and modern day slavery,
challenges facing the family, and migration.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was first proposed in
1908 as an observance within the Catholic Church by Fr Paul Wattson, founder of
the Franciscan Friars of the
Atonement in Graymoor, New York, because it begins with the feast
of St. Peter and ends with the feast of the conversion of St. Paul.
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