Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity,
celebrated every January between the commemorations of the Confession of St. Peter
(January 18) and the Conversion of St. Paul (January
25), runs from Wednesday to Wednesday in 2006, with Sunday, Jan. 22,
being Ecumenical Sunday. This 97-year-old tradition gives Christians an annual
opportunity to de-emphasize their many divisions and to praise God in the Holy
Spirit for the unity they already share in Christ. It reaffirms faith in the Triune
God, and by participating in it Christians plead with God to fulfill the prayer
of Jesus, the Son of God, “that they all may be one.”
Last updated:
2006-01-02