Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025Exemple

The Incarnation of the Son

Patristic Reading

From the Armenian tradition
He took upon himself all human passions, excluding sin. That is: he hungered who gives food to all the living. He thirsted who gives the water of life to his believers. He felt weariness who is the rest of the weary.
He slept who always kept Israel vigilant. He wept who wiped away every tear from all eyes ... He took on our passible body, so that he who is impassible might suffer with the passible body and he who is immortal might die with the mortal body, to free us who are guilty.
- Gregory of Skevra [12th/13th centuries], On True Faith and Pure Conduct in the Virtues, 15-17

For reflection:

1.How does faith in Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, inspire and shape our lives?

2.How have you experienced Christ’s consoling presence in your life?

3.Wherever we see someone who is thirsty, hungry, weeping or suffering, Christ is present.

Prayer

Let us pray:
Lord God, our Father
draw our eyes to you
so that together we may walk
from darkness to the light of your face,
revealed to us in Jesus,
your Son and our brother,
who lives with you and the Holy Spirit
now and for ever and ever. AMEN.