You can now download or order printed resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023. The pamphlet includes daily reflections plus an order of service. It is available in English, bilingual Welsh/English, Irish and Scots Gaelic.
Resources
All the resources for 2023 will be made available as downloads below and some are also available to purchase online through Church House Bookshop. Resources from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 are also still available to download. Older resources are available on our archive website.
Printed resources
Church House Bookshop (online)
English pamphlet
Welsh / English pamphlet
English large print pamphlet
A3 poster – English, Welsh, Irish and Scots Gaelic text
For download
Download help
If you have problems with downloads, please consult the Help.
Printing A5 booklets
Many of the downloads are designed to be printed as A5 booklets on A4 paper. Please see the printing help from 2013 as a guide to printing the PDF documents.
Pamphlet: Be-Longing: Praying for Unity amidst Injustice
English
WPCU 2023 English pamphlet (PDF, 7.4MB)
(Please note this is a large file – see download guide) * This is designed to be printed as an A5 booklet on A4 paper (please see the printing help from 2013) but can also be printed as A4 (in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Fit’). For a Large Print version print the pamphlet as A4 (see above).
WPCU 2023 English accessible text only (A4 Docx, 55k)
Welsh/English
WPCU 2023 Welsh/English pamphlet (PDF, 2.4MB)
(Please note this is a large file – see download guide) * This is designed to be printed as an A5 booklet on A4 paper (please see the printing help from 2013) but can also be printed as A4 (in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Fit’). For a Large Print version print the pamphlet as A4 (see above).
WPCU 2023 Welsh accessible text only (A4 Docx, 82k)
Irish
WPCU 2023 Irish pamphlet (PDF, 6.4MB)
(Please note this is a large file – see download guide) * This is designed to be printed as an A5 booklet on A4 paper (please see the printing help from 2013) but can also be printed as A4 (in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Fit’). For a Large Print version print the pamphlet as A4 (see above).
WPCU 2023 Irish accessible text only (A4 Docx, 88k)
Scots Gaelic
WPCU 2023 Scots Gaelic pamphlet (PDF, 2.5MB)
(Please note this is a large file – see download guide) * This is designed to be printed as an A5 booklet on A4 paper (please see the printing help from 2013) but can also be printed as A4 (in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Fit’). For a Large Print version print the pamphlet as A4 (see above).
WPCU 2023 Scots Gaelic accessible text only (A4 Docx, 88k)
Powerpoint of service
Widescreen format
WPCU 2023 Powerpoint (PPTX, 5.2MB)
(The Powerpoint uses slide masters to make it easier to adjust styles)
Standard format
WPCU 2023 Powerpoint (PPTX, 5.2MB)
(The Powerpoint uses slide masters to make it easier to adjust styles)
Background image for WPCU 2023 Powerpoint (jpg, 78k)
(If you adjust the Powerpoint slide size you may lose the background image – use this to re-insert it)
Poster (A3/A4)
WPCU 2023 Poster (PDF, 4.3MB)
Text in English, Irish, Welsh and Scots gaelic (Please note this is a large file – see download guide). This can also be printed on A4 paper: in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Shrink oversized pages’.
WPCU 2023 English Poster (PDF, 4.4MB)
Text in English only (Please note this is a large file – see download guide). This can also be printed on A4 paper: in Adobe Acrobat Reader, choose File/Print, then under Size Options select ‘Shrink oversized pages’.
Editing the poster
You can add text to the local information box using a PDF editor, such as from Adobe. There are also some free PDF editors available, for example at https://www.sejda.com/pdf-editor which lets you upload and edit a PDF file online, then download the edited version.
Video – Stones and Stories
The video can also be downloaded from Vimeo.
You can also download a transcript of the video (Docx).
Stories and testimonies from Black and Asian Christians who pioneered racial justice in the Church and society over the last 25 years. These excerpts were taken from CTBI’s Racial Justice Champions webinar, first streamed live on 27 October 2021.
The stories can also be shown individually:
Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon – Story 1
Download from Vimeo.
Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon – Story 2
Download from Vimeo.
Revd Sivakumar Rajagopalan
Download from Vimeo.
Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal OBE
Download from Vimeo.
Revd Wale Hudson-Roberts
Download from Vimeo.
International version
The versions above for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023 have been adapted by the Britain and Ireland writers group. An international version is also available from the World Council of Churches (WCC) website:
Week of Prayer 2023 International Version
