Prayers for true unity

[WarriorAngel]

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I ask one thing...that your entire heart is in prayer for unity, and that we pray for the Most Holy Spirit of God bring us back together.

Every single person in this area, has the power of prayer & faith to do this.

WE can discuss all of this, but let our discussions be filled with the Holy Spirit, and our discussions be fruitful.
And that above all things, charity prevails.

:crosseo:

I will start with a particular prayer to our Lady.

Hail Mary, full of Grace. The Lord is with Thee, blessed art Thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen. :groupray:

Please add your own prayer to this prayer chain. :hug:

[InnerPhyre]

We're way ahead of you. At every single divine liturgy for the past 1600 or so years, Orthodox Christians have prayed:

Priest: For the peace of the whole world, the welfare of the holy Churches of God, and for the union of all men, let us pray to the Lord

People: Lord have mercy.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

We're way ahead of you. At every single divine liturgy for the past 1600 or so years, Orthodox Christians have prayed:

Priest: For the peace of the whole world, the welfare of the holy Churches of God, and for the union of all men, let us pray to the Lord

People: Lord have mercy.
We chant a similar translation:

For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the church of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord have mercy.

[InnerPhyre]

We chant a similar translation:

For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the church of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.
Lord have mercy.
I have been quite interested to learn in the past year, having moved in with a Missouri Synod Lutheran and from dating an Anglican (who is now Orthodox) that Anglican and Lutheran services often bear a clearer resemblance to Orthodox liturgies than do modern Catholic ones. When I was Catholic, I often brushed aside Anglicans and Lutherans as just liberal protestants. It wasn't until I attended an Anglican vespers service with my girlfriend and found that it was word for word the same as the vespers service that I attend every night that I realized I needed to reexamine things.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

I have been quite interested to learn in the past year, having moved in with a Missouri Synod Lutheran and from dating an Anglican (who is now Orthodox) that Anglican and Lutheran services often bear a clearer resemblance to Orthodox liturgies than do modern Catholic ones. When I was Catholic, I often brushed aside Anglicans and Lutherans as just liberal protestants. It wasn't until I attended an Anglican vespers service with my girlfriend and found that it was word for word the same as the vespers service that I attend every night that I realized I needed to reexamine things.
In writing his 1526 Deutsche Messe Luther actually used the liturgy of St. Chrysostom to guide his alterations. He had a deep love of the eastern patristics as well as St. Augustine (his Christology is almost identical to St. Cyril of Alexandria).

As for Anglicans, I've actually heard them described as the Orthodox of the west, with their stance of pious silence toward the Eucharistic mystery and episcopal structure.

Alas, in large part, we are liberal Protestants. Not the LCMS for sure (heck in the 1920s there were still geocentrists in the LCMS), but the majority.

[Knowledge3]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me - a sinner. :crosseo:

[Secundulus]

From the Anglican Mass

We have been praying this not less than once a week for 458 years.

Let us pray for the whole state of Christ’s Church.
. . . beseeching thee to inspire continually the Universal Church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord: And grant that all those who do confess thy holy Name may agree in the truth of thy holy Word, and live in unity and godly love. . . .Amen.

[WarriorAngel]

We're way ahead of you. At every single divine liturgy for the past 1600 or so years, Orthodox Christians have prayed:

Priest: For the peace of the whole world, the welfare of the holy Churches of God, and for the union of all men, let us pray to the Lord

People: Lord have mercy.

I believe we have a similar prayer, but let me go look.
Dont ask why I cannot remember everything word for word. I would just rather be correct than to suggest something that I could be erred about.

Meantime, I am asking this forum to please pray for unity. :crossrc:

[Sacrum Silentium]

Lord, have mercy. :crosseo:

[WarriorAngel]

May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good, and the good of all his Church.


Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles:
I leave you peace, my peace I give you.
Look not on our sins, but on the faith
of your Church,
and grant us the peace and unity
of your kingdom
where you live for ever and ever.

[Epiphanygirl]

I believe we have a similar prayer, but let me go look.
Dont ask why I cannot remember everything word for word. I would just rather be correct than to suggest something that I could be erred about.

Meantime, I am asking this forum to please pray for unity. :crossrc:

O' God, who settest straight what has gone astray, and gatherest together what is scattered, and keepest what Thou hast gathered together: we beseech Thee in Thy mercy to pour down on Christian people the grace of union with Thee, that, putting aside disunion and joining themselves to the true Sheperd of Thy Church, they may be able to render Thee worthy service. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost. Amen:crossrc:


Det vobis Deus idipsum sapere in alterutrum: ut unanimes uno ore honorificetis Deum nostrum

(God grant you to be one mind one towards another: that with one mind and one mouth you may honor our God.):crossrc:

[WarriorAngel]

Lord, grant us your graces to unite! :crossrc:

[Globalnomad]

Hey, be careful, I sense a whiff of "trumping each other" to see who has the better prayer for unity and who prays it more often!

[WarriorAngel]

Lord have mercy!

[xristos.anesti]

John 17.

1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.

9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

[WarriorAngel]

Love that prayer of Christ.

[WarriorAngel]

http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/stfrancis.html

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life

[Epiphanygirl]

One of the most besutiful prayers ^...WA.....:crossrc: