The Middle East Council of Churches is inviting you
To pray together on Sunday January 24, 2021
On the occasion of the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity", the Middle East Council of Churches, and in cooperation with the Episcopal Committee for Ecumenical Relations in the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops, is inviting you to participate in a virtual meeting and an Ecumenical prayer, on Sunday January 24, 2021 at 6 PM GMT. This Ecumenical prayer will be presided by HE Bishop Boulos Sayyah, representing HB Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, Maronite patriarch of Antioch, and will be broadcasted on the zoom application and on the MECC and CEROE Facebook pages.
Therefore, HE Revd. Habib Badr, president of the National Evangelical Union in Lebanon and president of the Council for the Evangelical family will be participating on behalf of the Evangelical family; HE Bishop Michel Kassarji (Chaldean Church) on behalf of the Catholic family; HE Metropolitan Antonios Al Souri (Greek Orthodox Church) on behalf of the Orthodox family; and Fr. Sarkis Ibrahim (Armenian Orthodox Church) on behalf of the Eastern Orthodox family…
Furthermore, Dr. Michel Abs, the MECC Secretary General, will participate in this Ecumenical meeting as well as Rev. Refaat Fekri (Evangelical Church of Egypt) and Adel Syryany (Syriac Orthodox Church), the associate Secretaries General, and Huguette Salameh, the director of the MECC Communication and Public Relations Department. Moreover, many representatives of the various Church families will join the meeting, besides a group of priests and deacons from different Middle Eastern countries, and members of the Episcopal Committee.
This Ecumenical meeting will include various prayers and hymns from the “The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” booklet which was translated into Arabic by the Middle East Council of Churches. In addition, HE Bishop Joseph Mouawad, the president of the Episcopal Committee for Ecumenical Relations, will address the celebration’s speech and reflection.
So join us, and let us pray together with one heart for our Unity, and may we find with the light of your guidance, O Lord, the path that leads to Unity; Unity in obedience to your love and righteousness.