Book contents
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The ritual activities of being in communion – recognition of one another’s baptisms, periodic actualization by the commemoration of one another’s hierarchs, joint eucharistic celebrations, and the occasional or regular intercommunion of members – etch the surface of the church, leaving visible channels expressing the unity of Christians who hold different eucharistic theologies and practices. Ritual expressions of communion with other Christians in Roman Catholic eucharistic practice are still relatively limited, and reflection on these practices is also still nascent. In this chapter, I suggest a new principle for ecumenical practice, followed by some ways that visible communion could be expressed honestly within eucharistic practice even before any positive change in Roman Catholic views on ecclesiality. In fact, I expect that it is through these practices (“the testing of new values in the crucible of the life and work of the receiving community”1) that the Roman Catholic Church will be able to discern the answers to the standing question of what it means to be “in full communion with Rome.”
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- Eucharist and Receptive EcumenismFrom Thanksgiving to Communion, pp. 185 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020