Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Church Unity Octave)

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Church Unity Octave is a special eight-day prayer period from January 18-25, when Catholics around the world pray for the unity of the Church. This octave was first established in 1908 by Father Paul Wattson, co-founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement.

Father Wattson saw the Church Unity Octave as a way to bridge the divide between Catholics and Protestants, and to promote Christian unity. The Octave begins on the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter and ends on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. During the Church Unity Octave, Catholics pray for the unity of the Church and for Christian unity in general. They also pray for all Christians who have left the Catholic Church, that they may return to the fold.

The Church Unity Octave is a good time for all Christians to reflect on the importance of unity within the Church. It is also a time to pray for those who have left the Church, that they may find their way back.

CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE

The Church Unity Octave (also known as The Chair of Unity Octave) is one of the most special andrichly indulgenced novenas of the Church year. 

It begins on (Traditional Calendar) January 18, the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair in Rome and concludes on January 25, Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.   It has accomplished an immense good in awakening Catholics to a missionconsciousness and to the need of interesting themselves in the conversion of those outside the Fold.

The intentions are as follows:

* January 18: The union of all Christians in the one true faith and in the Church.

* January 19: The return of separated Eastern Christians to communion with the Holy See

* January 20: The reconciliation of Anglicans with the Holy See.

* January 21: The reconciliation of European Protestants with the Holy See.

* January 22: That American Christians become one in union with the Chair of Peter.

* January 23: The restoration of lapsed Catholics to the sacramental life of the Church.

* January 24: That the Jewish people come into their inheritance in Jesus Christ .

* January 25: The missionary extension of Christ’s kingdom throughout the world


PRAYERS FOR THE CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE January 18 through 25 (to be recited daily)
https://catholicism.org/downloads/chair-of-unity-8.pdf

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