The Impossible Miracle That Reunited the Church

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For almost 400 years, Christian unity on this scale was considered impossible. Ever since the Reformation tore Western Christianity into pieces, not one Protestant religious community had ever been received back into Rome together as a single corporate body. Then, in October of 1909, an entire community of Episcopal friars and sisters in New York did exactly that. They came home together. And the man who led them had hidden the whole secret inside a single word. He called it atonement, and when you listen closely you hear three smaller words waiting inside it. At one ment. This is the story of how that word reaches all the way back to the ancient Day of Atonement, to the mercy seat in the holy of holies, and to a single Hebrew root, kafar, meaning to cover and so to reconcile. The mercy seat was the type. Christ is the fulfillment, the true place where God covers our sin and gathers his scattered children into one. And that fulfillment becomes real for you at the altar of every Mass, and in every prayer you offer for the healing of Christ's divided family. In this video: • How a community of Episcopal friars and sisters came home to Rome together in 1909 • Why atonement literally means at one ment, reconciliation • How the mercy seat of Leviticus 16 points straight to Christ in Romans 3:25 • Why Jesus prayed in John 17 that they may all be one • What the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has to do with the Mass ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 The Reunion That Should Have Been Impossible 0:40 Atonement: The Word Hiding At One Ment 1:08 What Christian Unity Actually Means 2:31 The Day of Atonement and the Mercy Seat 3:14 Christ Our Mercy Seat in Romans 3:25 3:52 Ezekiel's Two Sticks and the Scattered Tribes 4:24 John 17 and the Prayer That They May Be One 4:41 St. Cyprian and the Seamless Robe of Christ 5:06 Unity as Gift and Task in CCC 820 5:36 Father Paul Watson and the Church Unity Octave 6:22 Our Lady of the Atonement 6:48 The Mass Where the Mercy Seat Becomes the Altar 8:00 What You Can Do This Week 8:17 Is Christian Unity Invisible? An Objection Answered 9:06 Our Jewish Brothers and Sisters and Romans 11 📖 SCRIPTURE REFERENCED • Leviticus 16: the Day of Atonement, when the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy seat, the golden cover of the ark. • Romans 3:25: God put Christ forward as the hilasterion, the same Greek word the Jewish translators used for the mercy seat. • Ezekiel 37: God joins two sticks, Judah and Joseph, into one, a sign of the scattered tribes gathered home. • 2 Maccabees: the people pray that God would gather together the scattered. • John 17:21: on the night before he died, Jesus prayed that they may all be one, so that the world may believe. • John 11:52: Jesus would die to gather into one the scattered children of God. • Hebrews 9:12: Christ entered the true sanctuary once for all. • Romans 11: we Gentiles are wild branches grafted into the cultivated tree of Israel. ⛪ FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS & THE CATECHISM • St. Cyprian of Carthage (3rd century), On the Unity of the Church: the seamless robe of Christ, which the soldiers refused to tear, is a sign of the one, undivided Church. • CCC 820: Christ always gives his Church the gift of unity, yet the Church must pray and work to perfect it. Unity is a gift already given and a task still before us. 📜 SOURCES & FURTHER READING • Father Paul Watson and Mother Lurana White founded the Society of the Atonement at Graymoor, New York, in 1898. • The Church Unity Octave, an eight day prayer from January 18 to 25, began in 1908, placed under Mary as Our Lady of the Atonement. • In 1909 the Graymoor community was received into the Catholic Church together, the first religious community welcomed home this way since the Reformation. • Pope Benedict XV extended the octave to the whole Church in 1916. • In 1935 Abbe Paul Couturier reshaped it into the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, praying that all may be one as Christ wills and by the means he wills. 🔗 EXPLORE MORE 🌍 Website: https://totuscatholica.org/ Rosary Guide: https://totuscatholica.org/rosary ✉️ Contact: https://totuscatholica.org/contact 🔍 Examination of Conscience: https://catholicexaminationofconscien... 📚 Free eBooks: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi... 👥 Become a Totus Insider: https://buymeacoffee.com/totuscatholi...