Talk:Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

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Interesting? Important?[edit]

why is this on the front page... hardly very interesting.

I wish Confession of Peter was on the front page. I'm currently fixing up the CoP article was shocked it wasn't listed on the 18 January page. But it is a rather notable event, in reference to its connections to the feast of the confession of peter...Remember that after Jesus tells Peter and the disciples of what he must go through as the Christ, as the Messiah, Peter cannot deal with it and Jesus admonishes him to keep his mind off such earthly things....because of the role of our "focusing on earthly things" that has caused the splits in the christian church. It's a rather notable, international event. —ExplorerCDT 23:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this important week observed by potentially 1/3 of the worldwide population is interesting. – Kaihsu (talk) 00:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Laughable. I'm Christian and i've never heard of it let alone observed it, as would just about everyone i know. 2 billion people estimate? utterly ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.31.28.245 (talk) 06:38, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the point of using an encyclopedia is to expand your knowledge and thereby rectifying your ignorance rather than displaying it. – Kaihsu (talk) 17:07, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing more clearly illustrates the careful use of concepts, in this case "ignorance". A vast amount, indeed most information, needs to be ignored. The striking thing is that someone thinks this should be on the front page. 72.228.150.44 (talk) 05:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

was this preceeded by an earlier tradition[edit]

It just that in his second book, Yet Not I, William Haslam makes mention of attending a week of prayer in early January 1861 (well, I assume it to be January because he talks of it being in his second week of being in Bath, but the chapter recounting his moving to Bath happens in 1860). That's substantially earlier than 1908. Is it possible that the tradition is earlier? Or is an offshoot of an earlier tradition? Or are they entirely unrelated? 82.11.251.232 (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SSPX[edit]

I removed the paragraph - - - "The 2009 Week of Prayer marked a time when Pope Benedict XVI decided to lift the excommunication on the leaders of the Society of Saint Pius X, who ironically have been historically hostile to this kind of ecumenism. -ref http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/01/document-repealing-excommunications_24.html Document repealing the excommunications -/ref" - - - from the section on the observation of the Week of Prayer, as it does not seem to me relevant to this topic .Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 20:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]