Instructions, Guidelines, Resources
Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity
The traditional date for the annual Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity is January 18 - 25, to cover the days between the feast of St Peter
and the feast of St Paul. We encourage you to use the official
resource material for various opportunities throughout the year to express the degree of communion
which the churches have already achieved and to pray together for that full
unity which is Christ’s will. See also “A
Select Bibliography of Catholic Documents and Statements on Ecumenical and
Interreligious Relations”
especially “Joint
Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” and also “Evangelicals
and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium”
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Periodicals List
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Mid-Stream: The Ecumenical Movement Today
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Ecumenism
Ecumenical and interreligious articles, Canadian Center for Ecumenism
www.ecumenism.net/
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Ecumenical
Trends
Documents and articles of ecumenical import. Published by The Graymoor
Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute.
www.geii.org
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Information Service of the Pontifical Council for
the Promotion of Christian Unity.
Practically every Vatican document, promulgation, open letter, or
address given on ecumenism.
www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/index.htm
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Intersect
Newspaper of the Massachusetts Council of Churches
Journal of Ecumenical Studies. Scholarly articles, both ecumenical and
interreligious.
www.masscouncilofchurches.org
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Living City
Monthly magazine of the Focolare Movement,
a Catholic organization concerned with unity on many levels.
www.rc.net/focolare
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Origins
Catholic News Service documentary service. Many important dialogue
statements and press releases reproduced in full.
www.originsonline.com
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SIDIC
"Service International de Documentation Judeo-Chretienne"
High
quality information, documents and book reviews pertaining to Jewish-Christian
Relations. Published by the SIDIC center in Rome.
www.sidic.org/english/index.asp
Guidelines
There are two sets of ecumenical guidelines which may be of interest.
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A general set of guidelines issued by the Vatican called Directory
for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism. It is available online
here.
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The Pastoral Guidelines concerning admission of Polish National
Catholics to sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church are available
here.
Additional resources:
Official Catholic ecumenical resources are available from the United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops Publishing Office
www.usccb.org/publishing/catalog/catalog.html
Ecumenical resources from the Massachusetts Council of Churches are available
here
www.masscouncilofchurches.org/resources.htm
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