Annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity service
Sun, Jan 29
|Saint Andrew Russian Greek Catholic Chur
Join us for our annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity service! Live-streamed and in person!
Time & Location
Jan 29, 2023, 3:00 PM
Saint Andrew Russian Greek Catholic Chur, 538 Concord St, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA
About the event
Every year, during January 18–25, the Forum participates in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. We gather together around this time and host an annual ecumenical prayer service featuring representatives and speakers from participating churches and ministries across Southern California. The service adapts materials produced by the World Council of Churches and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Through this service, we join Christians around the world in dedicating ourselves to Christ’s prayer for his church to be one as God is one (John 17:21).
The Week was conceived in 1908 by the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement at the Graymoor church center in Garrison, New York. They celebrated the Church Unity Octave between the Feasts of Saint Peter (January 18) and Saint Paul (January 25). The Week slowly grew in popularity as it was adopted by local interchurch prayer groups and monastic communities. By 1926, the…