The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins this Saturday. It is celebrated by the world's 2.4 billion Christians.<\/p>\n
Throughout the week, Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Anglicans and members of all Christian denominations reflect on the elements they have in common, not on those that separate them.<\/p>\n
The pope spoke about it during his meeting with representatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, who make a pilgrimage to Rome each year around this time.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was established in 1908 by Episcopalian Paul Watson.<\/p>\n In 1968, Catholics officially joined the initiative.<\/p>\n Each year, a different Christian community prepares a prayer. This year, it was written by Christians from Malta. It's called \u201cThey showed us unusual kindness.\u201d These were the words St. Paul used upon arriving to the island after a shipwreck.<\/p>\n Pope Francis will conclude the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity next Saturday, with an ecumenical prayer at the tomb of St. Paul, in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 18, 2020. The week will conclude next Saturday with an ecumenical encounter at St. Paul's tomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cfmp8rgcSF4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwsemanaoracionunidadcristianoseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwsemanaoracionunidadcristianosint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47135"}],"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=47135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe community of all the baptized is not a mere 'standing beside one another,' and certainly not a 'standing against one another,' but wants to become an ever fuller 'standing together.' Spiritual ecumenism and ecumenical dialogue serve to deepen this 'standing together.'<\/em><\/p>\n