The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Eight Days reflecting on our change in Christ
Day Two: Changed through patient waiting for the Lord
Let it be so now, for it is proper to fulfil all righteousness (Mt 3:15)
On this day we concentrate on patient waiting for the Lord. To achieve any change, perseverance and patience are needed. Prayer to God for any kind of transformation is also an act of faith and trust in his promises. Such waiting for the Lord is essential for all who pray for the visible unity of the church this week. All ecumenical activities require time, mutual attention and joint action. We are all called to co-operate with the work of the Spirit in uniting Christians.
If the pope understood the Gospel, he would no longer wish to be called a pope and would repudiate the errors Rome has propagated for centuries. When that happens, I will believe that the "waiting, perseverance, patience, faith, trust" to which he refers are correctly oriented. Until then, even the other cults of Unity, Unitarianism, Mormonism, Russelism, Christian Science, Osteenism, Open Theology, etc. promote items with these names.