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The new book, \u2018Father, may they be one…\u2019<\/em>, by the Dombes Group was published on 2 January 2026. Some members commented personally on what the prayer for unity meant according to Father Couturier. Anne-Cathy Graber, a sister in the community, took part in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Lord Jesus, You who prayed that all may be one, we pray for Christian unity\u2019<\/em><\/strong>: to pray for unity is to enter into the prayer of Another who precedes me. In other words, even if I do not know how to pray for unity (through forgetfulness, discouragement or indifference), another watches over us… and prays. Whatever happens, with this prayer from John 17, \u2018something\u2019 is given: Christ does not resign himself to the division, or even the dislocation, of his community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This prayer is therefore not a gentle melody asking for comfortable unity. No\u2026 It inspires resistance against all discouragement, against the \u2018what’s the point?\u2019 attitude in the face of a Body of Christ that sometimes no longer shows that it is one body, the body of the Holy One of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018[…] Christian unity, as you will it, by the means you will\u2019<\/em><\/strong>: praying for Christian unity gives free rein to God’s imagination! For the challenge is to accept to enter into a different logic, a different way of thinking and acting than my own. This prayer protects me from self-centredness because it causes a reversal of my thoughts, my logic, my sense of ecclesial diplomacy… It then brings me into God’s creative freedom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018May your Spirit grant us the grace to experience the pain of separation, to see our sin…\u2019<\/em><\/strong>: for a long time, I did not understand this request, sometimes discerning in it only the risk of Christian masochism. Today, I see it as the antidote to the \u2018accustomed soul\u2019 that Charles P\u00e9guy describes so well. Indeed, over the years, it is possible that I have become accustomed to a form of \u2018peaceful coexistence in division\u2019. I may have ended up content with a situation of statu quo<\/em>… quite polite, of course! This request \u2018to see our sin\u2019 then dislodges me from any self-justification: we have all sinned against the unity of the Body of Christ. I then understand that it is quite possible that I myself have participated in the \u2018scandal\u2019 of division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018… and to hope beyond all hope…\u2019<\/em>:<\/strong> asking for this hope that goes \u2018beyond\u2019 reminds me that the request to be \u201cone\u201d is not for the sake of being stronger or more \u2018compliant\u2019 with an ecclesial project. The challenge is this \u2018beyond\u2019 ourselves, beyond an \u2018ecclesial insularity\u2019: to hope for those who can no longer do so; to hope \u2018beyond\u2019 means to resist the forces of death and dislocation that threaten humanity and creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Amen!\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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