Within the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held from 17 to 25 January 2010, the Pallottine family in Rome celebrated the Solemnity of St. Vincent Pallotti. The motto of the Week was the words of Jesus: "You are witnesses to it" (Lk 24, 48).
Representatives of all the pastoral and apostolic realities of the great Pallottine Family, that is the Union of Catholic Apostolate, gathered together before the altar of St. Vincent Pallotti during the days of the Solemnity. The prayer for the beatification of Elizabeth Sanna, close associate and spiritual daughter of Pallotti, was the starting point to the Week of Prayer. The experience of the Eucharistic celebration in Syro Malabar Rite took the participants to India, particularly to the State of Kerala, where our Pallottine confreres and sisters are working since years, always strengthening the Pallottine presence. In another evening the students of the Urbanian College of Propaganda Fide were able to meet with their Spiritual Father, St. Vincent Pallotti and, following the tradition, one of them, this time coming from Cameroon, read out a letter to the Saint thanking specially for the work of evangelisation that the Pallottines have carried out in his country. Numerous members of the Union in Rome were always present at the celebrations. Various pastoral realities like the apostolate of schools, hospitals and parishes were represented and found time to come together and pray at the altar of our Founder.

The central moment was the Eucharistic celebration on the Solemnity of St. Vincent Pallotti on 22 January 2010, presided over by Msgr. Ernesto Mandara, Auxiliary Bishop of Central Rome and concelebrated by the confreres and some of the parish priests in Rome. The liturgy was animated by the UAC choir. During the liturgical celebration it was recalled how St. Vincent Pallotti, with his apostolic zeal and spirit of sacrifice, considered himself part of the Roman clergy and responded to the pastoral needs of his time. PHOTO PROGRAMME