Please join the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and St Phillip’s Episcopal Church for a

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Service

in observation of the 2025 Week of Prayer

Monday, January 20, 2025
4 PM Eastern

St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in the Highlands
1101 NY-9D
Garrison, NY 10524

The 2025 theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is “Do you believe?” (John 11:26): the theme honors the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, at which the question of common belief was upheld as a paramount pillar for church integrity, while also drawing us into the gospel episode of the resurrection of Lazarus, offering a promise of hope in times of communal fragmentation and death-dealing power. For more information about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the 2025 theme, or materials to aid in observing the WPCU in your home community, visit geii.org/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity.

“It is my hope that you will join us for these opportunities to pray, in the spirit of our Founders, that Christ’s prayer ‘That all may be one’ will be realized.” – V. Rev. Fr. Emil Tomaskovic

Daily Scripture and Prayer Guide

Day 3 – The Incarnation of the Son

Scripture Readings
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Psalm 72:7, 12, 16-17
John 1:1-14

Meditation

He took upon himself all human passions, excluding sin. That is: he hungered who gives food to all the living. He thirsted who gives the water of life to his believers. He felt weariness who is the rest of the weary. He slept who always kept Israel vigilant. He wept who wiped away every tear from all eyes… He took on our passable body, so that he who is impassable might suffer with the passable body and he who is immortal might die with the mortal body, to free us who are guilty. – Gregory of Skevra (12th/13th centuries), On True Faith and Pure Conduct in the Virtues, 15-17.

How does faith in Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, inspire and shape our lives? How have you experienced Christ’s consoling presence in your life? Wherever we see someone who is thirsty, hungry, weeping or suffering, Christ is present.

Prayer

Lord God, our Father, draw our eyes to you so that we may walk from darkness to the light of your face, revealed to us in Jesus, your Son and our brother, who lives with you and the Holy Spirit now and forever and ever. Amen.

For more daily prayers visit the Daily Scripture and Prayer Guide at geii.org.