Friday, January 31st 2025 Established 1905 27 Brickdam, Stabroek, Georgetown, Guyana Year 120, No. 4
Closing of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in East, West, pope reaffirms
Pope Francis, Orthodox Metropolitan Polykarpos of Italy and Malta, left, and Anglican Archbishop Ian Ernest, director of the Anglican Center in Rome, right, give their blessing at the end of an ecumenical prayer service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 25, 2025, at Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Easter in the West and the East. renew my appeal that this coinciCelebrating the Week of Prayer Noting that in 2025 the date dence may serve as an appeal to for Christian Unity, Pope Francis coincides on the West’s Gregorian all Christians to take a decisive reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s calendar and the East’s Julian step forward toward unity around willingness to accept a proposal calendar, Pope Francis said that “I a common date for Easter.” for a common date for celebrating (please turn to page 10)
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February 2
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Lectors and Cantors of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Bourda, Georgetown, received a special blessing on January 26th – the Sunday of the Word of God.❖ (Our Lady of Fatima Church - Guyana Facebook page)