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GARRISON, N.Y., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Â We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him (cf. Matthew 2:2) is the theme for the 2022 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. It was discerned by the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in Beirut, Lebanon, and finds its origins in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:1-12). The star in the east above Judea led the Magi to the birthplace of Jesus Christ, king and savior of all humanity, said Fr. James Loughran, SA, Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute. Two thousand years later, it still beckons us, lighting the way to Christ, who is the light of the world. ....
January 18, 2021 In 1908, Rev. Paul Wattson, then an Anglican religious in Graymoor, New York, began a Church Unity Octave with the support of Anglican and Catholic prelates, including Cardinal William O’Connell of Boston. The octave began on January 18, then the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter in Rome, and concluded on January 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. The following year, Wattson and other members of his Society of the Atonement became Catholic, and in 1910, Wattson was ordained to the priesthood. Observance of the octave spread rapidly. In 1916, Pope Benedict XV, renaming it the Chair of Unity Octave, extended its observance to the entire Church. ....