Folia Theologica et Canonica 10. 32/24 (2021)
Sacra theologia
20 MIHÁLY KRÁNITZ form of symbolic events, reconciliations, meetings, conferences, behind which the activities of the Holy Spirit could be experienced.26 In a recent document by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity (Vademecum Oecumenicum, 2020), in the relations of the Catholic Church with other Christians, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council, mentions spiritual ecumenism, and concludes the official document with a prayer to Paul Couturier, the first Catholic ecumenical pioneer: Father Paul Couturier (1881-1953), a Catholic pioneer in the ecumenical movement and particularly of spiritual ecumenism, called upon the grace of Christ’s victory over division in his prayer for unity which continues to inspire Christians of many different traditions. With his prayer we conclude this Vademecum: Lord Jesus, on the night before you died for us, you prayed that all your disciples may be perfectly one, as you are in your Father and your Father is in you. Make us painfully aware of our lack of faith in not being united. Give us the faithfulness to acknowledge, and the courage to reject, our hidden indifference, distrust and even enmity towards one another. Grant that we all may meet one another in you, so that from our souls and our lips there may ever arise your prayer for the unity of Christians as you will it and by the means that you desire. In you, who are perfect Love, grant us to find the way that leads to unity, in obedience to your love and your truth. Amen.27 Mihály Kránitz Pázmány Péter Catholic University kránitz. mihaly@htk.ppke. hu 26 See Kasper, W., Harvesting the Fruits. Basic Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue, London 2009. 27 http://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/documenti/2020-l-eveque-et-l-unite-deschretiens—vademecum-cumenique.html (consulted: February 4th 2022).
