Saturday, December 22, 2007

Protestants To "Worship" at St Paul's Outside the Walls In Rome

Canterbury Tales has a very interesting post up called St Paul's Outside the Walls becomes St Paul's Without the Walls. St Paul's Outide the Wall's is one of the most historic and Holy Sites in Rome. Quite a buzz happened last year when the "casket" that might contains some of the remains of St Paul were found there. Next year is of course been designated The Pauline year. A year that will of course present opportunities for reconcilliation with various non Catholic Christian communities.

As you can see Rome , and I assume with Papal approval has taken a major step. That is an "ecumenical chapel" in the basilica's baptistery will be prepared so that "non-Catholic Christian communities [can] come and pray at the basilica and celebrate liturgy. As you can see Canterbury Tales finds this a tad unsettling and asks people's viewpoints. I can see his point. However because it is a "Pauline" year my gut and heart is telling me this is a grand idea. In fact it seems a very proper thing to do. GO and comment and tell him your thoughts. I also note in the news article he produces that a Schedule of events for the Pauline Year was given to the Holy Father on Monday. I shall try to find some details on that.

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