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What does it mean for separated Christians to be one? What does it really mean for Christians to faithfully respond to Christ’s call to be one family, as God, the Trinity, is a family sharing one life?
At the Last Supper, Christ opened his heart in ardent prayer to the Father, saying: “I do not pray for these only [the apostles], but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us” (John 17:20-21). To commonly call Christ “Lord” and yet to be in a state of disunity is, indeed, a painful reality for Christians everywhere.
As we join the pope in his meditations on the path of Christian unity, let us pray that we will hear Christ’s call for unity in our hearts and build upon “the recognition of the primary unity which already exists because of baptism.” This unity, the Holy Father states, “binds the baptized to one another, ……
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