January 25th is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, as well as being
the day that marks the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a worldwide
movement of Christians of many denominations engaged in praying and working for the
unity of Christians in the service of peace.
The week’s programme includes
many events, lectures and liturgies, but the culminating event takes on the last day
of the week, with the Evening Prayer in the Basilica of St. Paul’s outside the Walls,
presided by Pope Benedict XVIth.
Benedictine Abbot Edmond Power of the Monastery
of St. Paul's outside the Walls tells Linda Bordoni about this special Vespers service,
and about the boundless vision of St. Paul himself...