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Tentative Steps Exploring a New Path: The Roman Catholic Church and Eucharistic Hospitality with Ecumenical Intent Cover

Tentative Steps Exploring a New Path: The Roman Catholic Church and Eucharistic Hospitality with Ecumenical Intent

By: Fokke Wouda  
Open Access
|May 2022

Abstract

According to Heinrich Fries and Karl Rahner (1983), Eucharistic communion and church fellowship are interdependent realities. In the context of divided Christianity, how can churches start to restore them simultaneously? This paper explores how two ecumenical monastic communities attempt to navigate their way out, hoping that their experiences might indicate a future path. In these communities, the Roman Catholic Church extends eucharistic hospitality to their non-Catholic members in a unique effort to promote and accommodate their ecumenical significance. Based on my ethnographic research in the communities, this paper describes the practice of eucharistic hospitality in these particular contexts and the implications for reimagining the place of the Eucharist in the ecumenical process.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2022-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2359-8107 | Journal ISSN: 2359-8093
Language: English, German
Page range: 74 - 86
Published on: May 31, 2022
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2022 Fokke Wouda, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.