The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an ecumenical Christian observance in the Christian calendar that is celebrated internationally. It is kept annually between 18 January and 25 January in the Northern Hemisphere and between Ascension Day and Pentecost in the Southern Hemisphere.
The theme, You shall love the Lord your God … and your neighbour as yourself, taken from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, reflects the connection between love of God and love of neighbor with a particular concern for challenging the boundaries of who is considered “neighbor”. In this pericope, Jesus is questioned as to the path to eternal life. His answer is not to only observe the commandments, but to also imitate the love of God in the giving of self for another. It is a call for charity, mercy, justice, and unity.
La Semana de Oración por la Unidad de los Cristianos es una observancia cristiana ecuménica del calendario cristiano que se celebra internacionalmente. Se celebra anualmente entre el 18 y el 25 de enero en el hemisferio norte y entre el día de la Ascensión y Pentecostés en el hemisferio sur.
El tema, Amarás al Señor tu Dios… y a tu prójimo como a ti mismo, tomado del primer capítulo del Evangelio de Lucas, refleja la conexión entre el amor a Dios y el amor al prójimo, con una especial preocupación por desafiar los límites de quién se considera “prójimo”. En esta perícopa, Jesús es interrogado sobre el camino hacia la vida eterna. Su respuesta no es sólo observar los mandamientos, sino también imitar el amor de Dios en la entrega de uno mismo por el otro. Es una llamada a la caridad, la misericordia, la justicia y la unidad.
When approving these work guidelines, Pope Francis said, “the Synod is about synodality and not about this or that theme… The important thing is how the reflection is done, that is, in a synodal way”.
Mary O’Regan was born in 1824 but her exact birthplace in Ireland is unclear. We know that she came to St. John’s sometime before 1843, because her marriage to Peter Redmond of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford on November 20, 1843, is recorded in the Marriage Register at the Archdiocesan Archives in St. John’s. Peter Redmond died a few years later and we know nothing about Mary until she entered the Sisters of Mercy in October of 1850. At that time the fledgling community consisted of