This event is a special time for individual parishes to celebrate the gift of consecrated life and pray for men and women discerning a consecrated vocation with the global Catholic Church.
"We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him" (Mt 2:2). It is a week in which Christians around the world take part in an octave of prayer for visible Christian unity "that they all may be one." (cf. John 17:21).