Riccardi

Every year the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is held in many parts of the world from 18th to 25th January. Elsewhere it is celebrated at Pentecost. The motto for the Week of Prayer in 2012 refers to Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 15:51-58) and says ‘We shall be transformed because of the victory of Christ Jesus our Lord.’ The Word of Life for this month explores and comments upon this theme. Commetary on the Word of Life: If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. (Col 3:1) Paul is speaking to the community of Colossae. A world exists, he says, where there reigns true love, full communion, justice, peace, holiness and joy. It is a world that sin and corruption can enter no more, a world where the Father's will is perfectly done. This is the world Jesus belongs to. He has opened it up for us with his resurrection, passing

December 1955 Dearest all, prompted by different circumstances we came up with the idea to live a Word of Life every month. We feel that this practice is also suggested by the upcoming festivity that all Christians await with joy: Christmas. We would like it to be as regular as possible and wish to seriously commit our will to it. In this very important celebration we would like to seal our faithfulness to God by offering something concrete. We feel that He appreciates nothing other than the total offering of our heart to Him, so that He may impress on it His image and physiognomy, so that His life may be imprinted on it. The Gospel shows us how Jesus has a way of reasoning, loving and wanting all of His own, unique and so superior to the way of living, also of us Christians, that for all eras He will be able to make people extract “something” from the Gospel that will be useful to humanity of that era; and