{"id":25260,"date":"2010-01-18T07:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/pope-urges-the-church-to-take\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T07:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:13:48","slug":"pope-urges-the-church-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/pope-urges-the-church-to-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope urges the Church to take seriously prayer for COMPLETE unity among Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>Speaking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geii.org\/wpcu_index.htm\">Week of Prayer for Christian Unity<\/a>, which begins today and lasts until the 25th, the Pope talked about the value of the prayer initiatives for the Week at the Sunday Angelus Address:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"Garamond, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2010%20WPCU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2010 WPCU.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/2010 WPCU-thumb-185x285-4330.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"285\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Every year it constitutes, for believers in Christ, a<br \/>\npropitious time to revive the ecumenical spirit, to meet each other, to get to<br \/>\nknow each other, to pray and reflect together. The biblical theme, taken from<br \/>\nthe Gospel of St. Luke, echoes the words of the risen Jesus to the apostles:<br \/>\n&#8220;<b>You are witnesses of these things<\/b>&#8221; (Luke 24:48). Our proclamation of the<br \/>\nGospel of Jesus will be much more credible and effective the more that we are<br \/>\nunited in his love, as true brothers. Thus, <i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; \">I invite parishes, religious<br \/>\ncommunities, ecclesial movements and associations to pray unceasingly, in a<br \/>\nspecial way during Eucharistic Celebrations, for the complete unity of<br \/>\nChristians<\/span><\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins today and lasts until the 25th, the Pope talked about the value of the prayer initiatives for the Week at the Sunday Angelus Address: Every year it constitutes, for believers in Christ, a propitious time to revive the ecumenical spirit, to meet each other, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/pope-urges-the-church-to-take\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope urges the Church to take seriously prayer for COMPLETE unity among Christians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}