Holy Rosary Catholic Church will be the host when The Alliance Ministerial Association holds its annual worship service during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th.

This year’s theme is “What Does the Lord Require of Us?”, based on Micah 6:6-8.  Fr. Lou Nolette of Holy Rosary will offer a welcome and Fr. Bill Graham will give a sermon based on Micah 6:8 (“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”).  Several other members of the Ministerial will be leading different portions of the service.

Most of this year’s service was prepared by the Student Christian Movement of India.  While reflecting on the significance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the preparers decided to focus on the great leavels of injustice in the world.  The search for visible unity, they reasoned cannot be dissassociated from concern for the poorest of the poor.

The week of prayer was first observed in 1908 when Father Paul Wattson, the founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, proposed that the Octive for Christian Unity be keep from the existing commemorations of Confession or Peter on January 18th through the Conversion of Paul on January 25th.

During the Unit Octive, Christians throughout the world are invited to pray as Jesus did “that they all may be one . . . so the world may believe.” (John 17:21)

For more information, contact ministerial secretary, William Graham at 762-7010 or [email protected].