What Unites Us is Much Greater Than What Divides Us

Written By Order of St Lazarus Grand Priory of America

โ€œ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ.โ€

โ€”Pope Leo XIV, ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐น๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘– (2025)

๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐‹๐ž๐จ ๐—๐ˆ๐• ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐€๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐‘ฐ๐’ ๐‘ผ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’Š, ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐„๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ž๐š.

This new Apostolic Letter invites Christians of every tradition to rediscover the Creed that unites usโ€”a shared confession of faith in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

For the ๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐‹๐š๐ณ๐š๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ, this unity is lived each day through our ecumenical vocation. As an ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ฒ, we bring together Christians from diverse traditions who serve side-by-side in works of mercy, healing, and reconciliation.

Our charitable works express this common witness:

โ€ข ๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ-๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐”๐ค๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž

โ€ข ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฒ/๐‡๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐งโ€™๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐‡๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ขโ€˜๐ข, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐‹๐š๐ง๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐œ๐จ

โ€ข ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐จ๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐ค, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐งโ€”๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง

โ€ข ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐

Pope Leo XIV reminds us that love of God is inseparable from love of neighbor โ€” and that our witness becomes real when people experience Godโ€™s mercy through us.

May ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐น๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘– renew our ecumenical mission to be peacemakers, bridge-builders, and servants of Christโ€™s compassion in our world.

๐€๐ญ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ญ ๐€๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ โ€” ๐๐ฒ ๐€๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ.

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