CHAPTER 5: DYNAMICS OF COMMON LIFE AND COMMON EUCHARIST 163 explicate the relation between ecumenical convergence and growth within the community and sharing the Eucharist, he chooses his words carefully: FW: And, and for the community to grow rather than, than being different parts fitting together... it needs to celebrate the Eucharist... is that what you're saying, or...? TR: ... ... ... ... Yeah, it needs much more than that, this is one aspect. It needs a lot of patience with each other, it needs a lot of... uh... ... ... of listening, of forgiving, of being reconciled, so there are many aspects. But I think one... one aspect is celebrating the Eucharist, yes... ... But, I wouldn't formulate it exactly like this, it needs... maybe yes, I never thought like this, but... ... but one aspect of, for sure. And maybe even that it needs, yes... ... ... ... FW: I don't want to force any quotations on you, or something {laughs}... TR: No, but it's good to say it that way... ... ... ... ... I would... now I... I was a bit hesitant, because, all the statements which are a bit too... sort of affirmative, I don't like when it comes to a question like that, so... Taizé language would rather be, its common celebration of the Eucharist is a source of common life, and of growing, as a family and organism... and, and... the main source of that, but not sort of... with this needing, it's back to mechanics for me, it's you need that and then this works... but it's more... it's a source, of... of that mutual love, and brotherhood... ... that what was probably my hesitation.391 Soon after that, TB concludes: I think it would be very different. ... if, in the common prayer, and... there would not be also this sacramental aspect of um... ... because it's... it's a sign again, no, I mean, sacraments and signs are close anyway, so, it's a sign again, that there is something which comes from God, and which is not at our disposal... .... And like this it is so much a source, it's... ... it's, we receive. We receive, and... ... and so that the brothers said, it's the sacraments we cannot, or the Eucharist in particular, we cannot sort of... put it to the margins... but it needs to be in the center of common life of the brothers. And it needs to be in the center somehow also in the meetings. I think this has a very deep meaning... ... to give that depth to, to... to our life, first, and to our life commitment, and also, to give... at least to share something 391 TB-1,57-60.
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