January 18th - 25th: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.


"More than a century ago, Father Paul Wattson proposed the setting aside of a week devoted to prayer for unity..."

"After his proposal was made in 1908...,"

Pope Saint Pius X was the pope who "endorsed the idea almost immediately..."


A snippet from Kenneth Howell's article, The Quest for Christian Unity.

It was published in the January 2011 Newsletter of The Coming Home Network International.


"More than a century ago, Father Paul Wattson proposed the setting aside of a week devoted to prayer for unity.

"Father Wattson, a convert from the Anglican tradition to the Catholic faith, sought ways to encourage the union of non - Catholic Christians with the See of Peter in Rome.

"After his proposal was made in 1908, two popes (Pius X and Benedict XV) endorsed the idea almost immediately [sic.].

"Later, the French Abbot Paul Couterier suggested renaming the week Universal Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to encourage Christians of all stripes to enter into the observance.

"The Catholic Church adopted this title in 1966, just after the Second Vatican Council.

"Since the 1960s, the Church has been vigorously urging Christians to observe this time of prayer as a way to achieve a greater level of awareness of Christ's desire for unity... "


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