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The modern practice of prayer, meditation, and study for Unity on the basis of our Lord’s words as they are recorded in the seventeenth chapter of St. John can be traced to the striking letter on the reunion of Christendom which Pope Leo XIII wrote in 1894, on his completion of fifty years of episcopal life. The aged Pontiff, who was to remain active for nearly ten more years, prefaced his appeal to Orthodox and Anglican, pagan and lapsed, with the following commentary :
‘As this Divine prayer embraces not only the souls who then believed in Jesus Christ, but also every one of those who were henceforth to believe in Him, it gives us an excellent reason for confidently expressing our hopes and for making all possible endeavours that men of every race and clime may be called and moved to embrace the unity of Divine faith.’
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1 The full text is translated into English by Dr. Messenger in his collection of documents, Rome and Reunion (B.O. & W.).
2 Divinum Illud.. (C.T.S.). The Holy Ghost. Do. 187.
3 Die Einheit in der Kirche. There is no English translation, but a recent French one was made in the Unam Sanctam series, Editions du Cerf, 1938, p. 92.
4 Meditations and Devotions (Longmans, 1893), p. 271.
5 Reprinted in England and Christendom (Longmans, 1867), p. 137.
6 The Benedictines of Caldey. Peter Anson. (B.O. & W.), p. 165.
7 English version. Divided Christendon?. M. J. Congar, O.P. (Bles).
8 P. Couturier. The Universal Prayer of Christians for Christian Unity (Pax House), p. 14.
9 Resolutions and Reports. Lambeth Conference, 1920 (S.P.C.K.), p. 137.
10 See The Tablet, January 11th. For Christian linity. Fr. M. Bevenot, S.J.