Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025

Dear friends,

While our minds are starting to focus on Advent and Christmas preparations, please take some time to read through the resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity linked below.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an annual ecumenical event to bring the many flavours of Christianity together in prayer and conversation.

Next year the octave is from Thursday, Jan 18, 2025 through Thursday, Jan 25. You can read about the history of this event here.

This is an opportunity for your community to reach out to a local congregation and invite them to pray with you, have coffee, and learn about one another's traditions.

The World Council of Churches has prepared liturgical resources to assist you in this. You can find them here, or download the attached file.

The theme this year is “Do you believe this?” and is a celebration of the 1,700th anniversary of the first Christian Ecumenical Council in Nicea in 325CE.

Take a look at the resources and begin to wonder which other Christian communities in your neighbourhood you would like to reach out to and pray with.