2 · THE EXAMINER · JAN 18 - 24, 2020 www.the-examiner.org 171 Years A CATHOLIC NEWSWEEKLY - Est 1850 • 171 years of publication • MUMBAI • Vol. 64 No. 03 • JAN 18 - 24, 2020 • Rs. 15/- Editor-in-Chief Fr Anthony Charanghat 5 'THEY SHOWED US EDITORIAL BOARD: UNUSUAL KINDNESS' Managing Editor: Fr Joshan Rodrigues Editorial Members: Adrian Rosario Carol Andrade 6 CHRISTIAN UNITY OCTAVE 2020 Dr Astrid Lobo Gajiwala ASST EDITOR: Fr Nigel Barrett 7 A VOCATION IS A CALLING FROM OUR FRIEND JESUS ART DIRECTOR: Rosetta Martins Fr Emmanuel K.T. CONTENTS ELECTRONIC MEDIA: Neil D'Souza 9 WHAT’S IN A NAME? ADVERTISING: John Braganza Fr Nelson Lobo, OFM Cap. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY : Fr Anthony Charanghat for the Owners, 10 WHY YOUNG PEOPLE AREN’T The Examiner Trust, Regn. No. E 10398 Bom. PURSUING VOCATIONS: PROBLEMS under the Bombay AND SOLUTIONS Public Trust Act, 1950. 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The Pontifi cal Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order T have been preparing the text for the entire world. "The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2020" EDITORIAL has been prepared by the churches in Malta, and the theme chosen is "They showed us unusual kindness" (Acts 28:2). On February 10, many Christians in Malta celebrate the Feast of the Shipwreck of St Paul, marking and giving thanks for the arrival of Christian faith on these islands. The reading from the Acts of the Apostles used for the feast is the text chosen for this year's Week of Prayer. Today, many people are facing the same terrors on the same seas. The very same places named in the reading (27:1, 28:1) also feature in the stories of modern day migrants. In other parts of the world, many others are making equally dangerous journeys by land and sea to escape natural disasters, warfare and poverty. Their lives, too, are at the mercy of immense and coldly indifferent forces – not only natural, but political, economic and human. This human indifference takes various forms—the indifference of those who sell places on unseaworthy vessels to desperate people; the indifference of the decision not to send out rescue boats; and the indifference of turning migrant ships away. This names only a few instances. As Christians together facing these crises of migration, this story challenges us: do we collude with the cold forces of indifference, or do we show "unusual kindness" and become witnesses of God's loving providence to all people? Hospitality is a much needed virtue in our search for Christian unity. It calls us to a greater generosity to those in need. The people who showed unusual kindness to Paul and his companions did not yet know Christ, and yet it is through their unusual kindness that a divided people were drawn closer together. Our own Christian unity will be discovered not only through showing hospitality to one another, but also through loving encounters with those who do not share our language, culture or faith. In such tempestuous journeys and chance encounters, God's will for His Church and all people comes to fulfi lment. As Paul will proclaim in Rome, this salvation of God has been sent to all peoples (Acts 28:28). The Conference of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) Commission for Ecumenism, calls on the Church in India to join the Maltese Church in their craving for unity. Great and big initiatives for Christian unity may seem beyond our reach. Yet, each one of us and each church community is capable of contributing our mite for the noble cause of Christian unity by following "the little way of ecumenism" shown by Blessed Sr Maria Gabriella Sagheddu, a Trappist nun who has been popularly heralded as the "Patron Saint of the Ecumenical Movement" for her own conversion from selfi shness and pride, which are at the root of divisiveness.