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Dawn · « **on:** January 25, 2008, 07:32:42 AM »

WCC head and Pope to meet in Rome at climax of unity week

22 Jan 2008

Ekklesia

Pope Benedict XVI and the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), along with high-level representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC, will meet in Rome on Friday 25 January 2008, at the centennial of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

On Friday morning, the WCC general secretary will meet the Pope in a private audience along with members of the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC.

The group, an inter-church think-tank advising the parent bodies on areas of common concern, is holding its annual plenary meeting in Rome from 21-26 January.

Pope Benedict XVI will preside at an ecuмenical Vespers service at the Roman basilica of St Paul's Outside-the-Walls at 5.30pm that same day. During the service, Dr Kobia will bring greetings on behalf of the fellowship of 347 churches constituting the WCC - Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and indigenous.

The ecuмenical service will conclude the 18-25 January period during which the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is traditionally observed in the northern hemisphere, while in the global south the days around Pentecost are favoured.

2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the week of prayer, which every year is celebrated by millions of Christians all over the world.

An ecuмenical award will be presented to the two bodies which, for 40 years have jointly prepared and promoted the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC.

The Paul Wattson Christian Unity Award will be presented by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the PCPCU; Rev Dr John Gibaut, WCC director of Faith and Order; and his predecessor, Rev Dr Thomas F. Best. The ceremony on Thursday, 24 January, 4.30pm, at the Centro Pro Unione includes a lecture by Kasper and an ecuмenical service at which Gibaut will preach.

The award takes its name from one of the initiators of the first Octave of Prayer for Church Unity held in January 1908 in Graymoor, New York, by the Society of the Atonement, a small religious community in the Franciscan tradition.

The first celebration of the octave 100 years ago is recalled as the foundational moment of the week of prayer in this year's centennial celebrations.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6624

Dawn · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2008, 10:57:24 AM »

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2008, 12:59:33 PM »

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Pope Benedict XVI will preside at an ecuмenical Vespers service at the Roman basilica of St Paul's Outside-the-Walls at 5.30pm that same day. During the service, Dr Kobia will bring greetings on behalf of the fellowship of 347 churches constituting the WCC - Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and indigenous.

Can anyone say APOSTASY?

Has anyone actually read Mortalium animos?

I just love what this "conservative, traditional watchdog" is doing to bring back the integral Faith of our fathers.

Dawn · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2008, 01:22:03 PM »

I saw this today when Grandma was watching EWTN. As usual it reminded me of the bar scene from "StarWars" with all of the strange persons present.'
Of course the Mad Hatter had on a Traditional Miter and sat in a Papal Chair, so we will hear the sighs of delight amongst the starving "Conservatives".

Dawn · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2008, 01:28:46 PM »

This is not being posted so that I can be warned to stay away from Fr. Moderator at Traditio.com as they are usually correct is their commenaries, but to point on the fact that the real danger lies in Rome these days

Benedict-Ratzinger Goes "Oecuмenical" with Radical World Council of Churches
He Will Personally Preside over a Sacrilegious "Oecuмenical Service" at a Roman Archbasilica
From: The Fathers
At least JPII had sense enough to keep away from that radical cesspool of Protestant Modernism, the World Council of Churches. Even many conservative Protestant groups refused to become members. Benedict-Ratzinger, however, is a much more radical Liberalist/Modernist, so will meet with the Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia, General Secretary of the WCC on January 25, 2008. Joining them will be members of the Joint Working Group between Newchurch and the WCC, another one of Newchurch's false oecuмenical groups.

Later that day, the same pope that conservative Newchurchers claim is "traditional" because of his Great "Motu" Mess Hoax, will personally "preside" at a sacrilegious oecuмenical Vespers service, to be held in one of the great archbasilicas of Rome, St. Paul's Outside the Walls, which he has made into a center for a One World Religion. [Source: Eccklesia]

This sacrilege simply confirms how duped conservative Newchurchers are who claim that Benedict-Ratzinger is "traditional" in any sense of the term. He is clearly the same suit-wearing radical Liberalist/Modernist that he was at Vatican II, button-holing bishops to get them to vote to include Protestant heresies in the Council's docuмents

Nothing like giving St. Paul a swift kick in the ribs if you ask me courtesy of modernist Rome.

Dulcamara · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2008, 10:27:49 PM »

I'm with you, Anne. This kind of thing is nothing new, but we can't become accustomed to it either. I think Our Lady will win this one for us, but first we need to do what she asked, and pray the rosary. She also asked us to pray for sinners in particular.

Another prayer I love is the prayer of St. Gertrude. (I think that's who it was anyhow...) It's to offer the Masses said throughout the world each day, and is supposed to release 1,000 souls from purgatory each time it is said. (I have no source for that indulgence, unfortunately...) Anyhow, it's something like...

Eternal Father, I offer you all of the Masses said throughout the world today, for the holy souls in Purgatory, for the Holy Catholic Church, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.

I think that's how it goes... it's a pretty well known prayer, I think. Anyhow I'm fond of it because it basically covers everything. And the Church needs those graces now.