On the eve of the feast of St Peter's Chair at Eornswhen the octave of prayers for Christian unity begins, I am reminded of our Lord's prayer, I recorded only by St John, perhaps because he was leaning on his Master's breast at the last Supper, where he could hear every word. That strange, mystic prayer asked for a stupendous privilege for his loved ones. And these loved ones were not only the apostles, for our Lord said that he prayed not only for these, but ‘for them also who through their word, shall believe in me’.