The prior and community of the Monastery of Saint-Benoît in Brignoles have issued a public appeal for June to be observed as a time of earnest prayer and fasting for the unity of the Church, particularly in light of the Society of St Pius X’s planned episcopal consecrations on July 1.
In the appeal, issued on Trinity Sunday, the monks quote Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 reflection on divisions in the Church: “Looking back over the past, to the divisions which in the course of the centuries have rent the Body of Christ, one continually has the impression that, at critical moments when divisions were coming about, not enough was done by the Church’s leaders to maintain or regain reconciliation and unity. One has the impression that omissions on the part of the Church’s leaders have had their share of blame for the fact that these divisions were able to harden. This glance at the past imposes an obligation on us today: to make every effort to enable for all those who truly desire unity to remain in that unity or to attain it anew.”
