On January 26, as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity an interfaith prayer service was held in the Ukrainian Greek Church of St. Basil the Great.
On January 26, as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity an interfaith prayer service was held in the Ukrainian Greek Church of St. Basil the Great.
Addressing the audience, Archbishop Lubombyr Husar said: “The theme that was chosen this year for these prayer meetings was taken from the letter of Paul to the Corinthians: ‘Is Christ divided?’”
Then Fr. Ihor Shaban, head of the Commission for Christian Unity, read the words of Apostle Paul.
“Brethren, I beseech you the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and same conviction...”
After reading the words from the Scripture, Archbishop Lubomyr said: “This letter, in fact, was also written to us, because we, unfortunately, are also divided. We, beloved in Christ, came here not to study the letter, the circumstances in which Apostle Paul wrote it, but to pray. We came together to pray, not to seek human wisdom, not to justify our mistakes, sins, our division, causing all sorts of human considerations, justifying ourselves, but we, having discarded all human wisdom, the so-called wisdom, came together to ask the crucified Jesus Christ to give us the grace to unite in him,” the Information Department of the UGCC reports.