What a gift it has been to celebrate the 2022 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with you! Thank you for your careful organization and dedicated prayer, even in spite of the ongoing pandemic.
Here are some highlights from communities across the country. Thank you all who have sent photos and stories to us!
Want to share your photos and stories? Email wpcu-spuc@councilofchurches.ca and we’ll get in touch with you.
Drayton Valley, AB: Rev. Christopher Cook of All Saints' Anglican Church offers a prayer during an evening WPCU event. This was one of seven prayer events organized in the community.
Sudbury, ON: An evening online WPCU service was sponsored by the Order of Saint Lazarus. Pastor Eric Dyck of St. John's Lutheran Church in Montréal offers the sermon.
St. John’s, NL: Church leaders pin stars to blue cloth as an expression of their hope for Christian unity in a livestreamed gathering at Wesley United Church.
Richmond, BC: Participants take turns pinning stars to a blue cloth as a sign of their desire for unity at St. Monica Parish. This was one of several WPCU events organized in and around Vancouver, BC, in 2022.
Vancouver, BC: Church leaders gather to celebrate the WPCU at Holy Rosary Cathedral. This was one of several events organized in and around the city in 2022.
Montréal, QC: Leaders from the Anglican, Armenian, Roman Catholic, Imani Family & Full Gospel Baptist, Orthodox, Presbyterian, Baptist, and United churches, Fraternités monastiques de Jérusalem, the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, and the Focolare Movement celebrate online.
Montréal, QC: The Armenian Trisagion is sung at an online ecumenical worship service organized in partnership among local churches and the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism.
Montréal, QC: An Armenian chant is offered to God (with Fr Paul Kara of The Sign of the Theotokos Orthodox Church).
Toronto, ON: Church leaders gather to celebrate the WPCU at St. Edward the Confessor in the Willowdale neighbourhood.
Sherbrooke, QC: The long tradition of WPCU celebrations continued on Zoom in 2022, with a homily from the Rt. Rev. Bruce Myers, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Quebec.
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