by the prayers offered during The international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: the Octave of Christian Unity, January 18-25.
"If I can unite in myself the thought and devotion of Eastern and Western Christendom, the Greek and the Latin Fathers, the Russian and the Spanish mystics, I can prepare in myself the reunion of divided Christians. From that secret and unspoken unity in myself can eventually come a visible and manifest unity of all Christians. If we want to bring together what is divided, we cannot do so by imposing one division upon the other. If we do this, the union is not Christian. It is political and doomed to further conflict. We must contain all the divided worlds in ourselves and transcend them in Christ."~ Fr. Thomas Merton 1915-1968
"The signature of God is One" Fr. Lawrence Vadakkan
Miraculous Icon
of Christian Unity
Our Lady of Soufeniah
(Damascus, Syria)
weeps for sorrow because
of division within the Church.
