Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a concept of the World Council of Churches: The World Council of Churches Home Page - English which is always observed from January 18th, the Commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter, through January 25, the observance of the Conversion of St. Paul.

This is one of the most important weeks in my work as a ecumenical liturgical coordinator at the School of Theology and Ministry:  The School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University. I have been doing some reflection about the fact that people don't seem to know much about this week, nor do they do much to observe it.  At STM we do.  In the next couple of weeks, I am going to post some of my reflections on the week and a portion of the information that the World Council of Churches provides as resource for us each year. If you go to the WCC site and check out Week of Prayer, you can download a 42 page PDF booklet with all of the resources. I will hope to entice you to do that, but if you read my postings, you will become acquainted with the concept.

This year at STM we have asked a collection of eight students,staff and faculty to write short reflections for each of the eight days.  I will either post them here, or post a link to them if we get our website up and running in time.  I will also extract the information from the WCC booklet and post the individual day reflections here each day. 

My prayer is that these reflections and links will introduce you to the wealth of resources that are out there for Week of Prayer and entice you into deeper reflection of what it means to be part of the one mystical body of Christ while living your Christian experience daily in a particular expression of that Body.