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Charta Oecumenica

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5 - Praying together

The ecumenical movement lives from our hearing God's word and letting the Holy Spirit work in us and through us.

In the power of this grace, many different initiatives now seek, through services of prayer and worship, to deepen the spiritual fellowship among the churches and to pray for the visible unity of Christ's Church. A particularly painful sign of the divisions among many Christian churches is the lack of eucharistic fellowship.

In some churches reservations subsist regarding praying together in an ecumenical context. But we have many hymns and liturgical prayers in common, notably the Lord's Prayer, and ecumenical services have become a widespread practice: all of these are features of our Christian spirituality.

We commit ourselves

to pray for one another and for Christian unity;
to learn to know and appreciate the worship and other forms of spiritual life practised by other churches;
to move towards the goal of eucharistic fellowship.

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