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Anyone praying this? It started yesterday, on the traditional feast of St. Peter's Chair in Rome, and ends on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
Each day of the octave is for a different intention. It's a wonderful set of prayers, asking that the words of Jesus be fulfilled, ut unum sint, "that they may all be one."
It was started in 1899 by an Episcopal priest in New York, and ten years later, he and a convent of Episcopal nuns in the same place all converted to Catholicism. Pope Benedict XV approved it in 1916, and the US bishops unanimously adopted it in 1921. The new version of the Unity Octave is called the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (which I'm not familiar with), and prayed by many denominations.
Here's a link to yesterday's prayers; just change the day for the other seven.
Each day of the octave is for a different intention. It's a wonderful set of prayers, asking that the words of Jesus be fulfilled, ut unum sint, "that they may all be one."
It was started in 1899 by an Episcopal priest in New York, and ten years later, he and a convent of Episcopal nuns in the same place all converted to Catholicism. Pope Benedict XV approved it in 1916, and the US bishops unanimously adopted it in 1921. The new version of the Unity Octave is called the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (which I'm not familiar with), and prayed by many denominations.
Here's a link to yesterday's prayers; just change the day for the other seven.
