2019 WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY IN CANADA

Every year, Christians around the world are invited to celebrate a Week of Prayer for the unity of all Christians (January 18-25, 2019), to reflect on scripture together, to participate in jointly-organized ecumenical services, and to share fellowship.
 
The 2019 theme, Justice and only justice you shall pursue (Deut 16:18-20), calls us to move from shared prayer to shared action, to be united Christians who work together to witness to Christ’s healing grace in a broken world, by making specific commitments to justice, equality, and unity.
 
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was first proposed in 1908 as an observance within the Roman Catholic Church by Fr Paul Wattson, founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in Graymoor, New York. Since the founding of the World Council of Churches in 1948, many other Christian denominations have come to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

More Resources on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity:

Link to Canadian resources

Link to international version of the resources