At the General Audience, Pope Francis focused on the theme of this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: \u201cThey treated us with kindness.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said the people of Malta from the Acts of the Apostles made God's love manifest through concrete acts of kindness for St. Paul and his companions, who had been shipwrecked. <\/p>\n
The pope called Christians to follow this example of hospitality in order to help those most in need and grow in unity.<\/p>\n
SUMMARY OF CATECHESIS IN ENGLISH <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Dear Brothers and Sisters: <\/em> <\/p>\n Today\u2019s catechesis occurs in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, whose theme this year \u2013 on hospitality \u2013 was prepared by the Christian communities of Malta and Gozo. The theme is based on Saint Paul\u2019s dramatic experience of being shipwrecked at Malta, and the welcome he and his companions received there. Indeed, in contrast to the sea\u2019s violence, the survivors received \u201cunusual kindness\u201d (Acts 28:2), reflecting God\u2019s love for them. This hospitality was then repaid when Paul healed many sick people, thus revealing God\u2019s merciful love.<\/em> I greet the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors taking part in today\u2019s Audience, especially the groups from Belgium, Korea, Australia and the United States of America. In this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I offer a special greeting to the students from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute. I also greet the priests of the Institute for Continuing Theological Education of the Pontifical North American College. <\/em> <\/p>\n Upon all of you and your families, I invoke the joy and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless you!<\/em> <\/p>\n Claudia Torres <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 22, 2020. The pope called attention to the theme for this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Kq8GNPVggJ0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncudienza2201eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncudienza2201eng.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Hospitality is an important ecumenical virtue, which is open to listening to the experience that other Christians have of God. When we welcome Christians of a different tradition we reveal God\u2019s love to them and receive the gifts that the Holy Spirit has sown in them. In this way, we Christians are challenged to overcome our divisions and to show Christ\u2019s love more effectively to others, especially the many migrants who, like Paul, face danger at sea, as they flee from peril. Working together like this will make us both better disciples of the Lord and more united as the People of God.<\/em> <\/p>\n