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CHAIR OF UNITY OCTAVE: JANUARY 18-25

`That they may all be one.:
John XVII 21.
EIGHT DAYS OF PRAYER FOR PEACE, UNITY
THE eight days between this Sunday, the Feast of St. Peter's Chair in Rome, and next Sunday, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, will be observed in churches in many parts of the world as a time of prayer in order to win souls to the unity of the Catholic Church.
Special services have been arranged at Westminster Cathedral, Londo n; the Church of the Gesil in Rome; the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington; St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, and other cities.
Westminster
Mgr. Gordon Wheeler, Administrator of Westminster Cathedral has gone to the United States to preach during the Octave in Providence Cathedral, Rhode Island, while
Fr. Alexander Beaton of Grey
moor, headquarters of the Chair of Unity Apostolate in New York, is coming to London to lead the recitation of prayers each evening in Westminster Cathedral. He will preach on Thursday evening.
Fr. Beaton was born in Stellaton, Nova Scotia. and was ordained in 1946. His brother is the wellknown ice-hockey player of the Harringay Racers, Joe Beaton, of Stanmore. Middlesex. who was named player of the century in a recent poll.
Liverpool
Archbishop Heenan of Liverpool will preach a special sermon for the opening of the week at St. Francis Xavier's, Liverpool, at 6.30 p.m. on Sunday.
Last year, 1958, marked the golden jubilee of the institution of the Chair of Unity Octave at Graymoor, N.Y., by Fr. Paul James Francis, S.A.
This year, 1958, marks the 50th anniversary of the conversion of Fr. Paul and his companions, all members of the Anglican Church.
"The greatest thing I ever did was when 1 brought myself and my companions at Graymoor into the Catholic Church," said Fr. Paul, who died in 1940.
Fr. Titus Cranney, S.A., national director of the Chair of Unity Octave, said: " It was singularly providential that the man who founded the Chair of Unity should himself be a convert. His entrance into the one fold served as an example and incentive for many souls."
It will be recalled that Pope John XXIII in his first Christmas broadcast, made an urgent appeal for peace and for closer collaboration among all Christians and made special mention of the members of the Orthodox Eastern Churches.
Since His Holiness spent some 20 years in the East, his words made a particularly striking im




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