Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde will join leaders of three
other Christian churches as part of this year’s Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., at Mount
Olivet United Methodist Church, 1500 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington.
Joining Bishop Loverde will be Bishop Young Jin Cho of the
United Methodist Virginia Conference; Bishop Richard Graham
of the Metro D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America; and Bishop Ted Gulick of the Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia.
The Church Unity Octave, a forerunner of the Week of Prayer
for Christian Unity, was developed by Father Paul Wattson, at
Graymoor in Garrison, N.Y., and was first observed in 1908.
The current Week of Prayer for Christian Unity invites the
Christian community throughout the world to pray in communion
with the prayer of Jesus “that they all may be one” (Jn
17:21).
