CHAPTER 5: DYNAMICS OF COMMON LIFE AND COMMON EUCHARIST 171 was expressed in different formulations and, as such, has known many different manifestations, again affirms the idea that lived faith precedes reflected faith. More importantly to the theme at hand, though, TBmentions it to illustrate that, in faith, one has to rely on past generations: one has to trust the tradition, the church. He concludes: ... I remember once, Brother Roger, he liked this expression, the faith of the church... and, and then, of course, you can understand it like everything from completely different sides. Some people would say faith-of-the-church {adds emphasis by knocking on the table at each syllable}, that is what is defined in the book. But for him faith of the church it meant, the faith of the church, of, since, he often said in prayer, from Mary, the apostles... the witnesses of all times, until today, and then meant that there is, there is that... common, rootedness in God and, through Christ, through faith, through the practice of prayer, of Baptisms, of the sacraments, which, which is something which, which is so greater than we, that uh... we cannot comprehend it, we cannot sort of... and, so he this, for this... this may be strange expression, when he would say, um... when the pope came here, John Paul II, but it is, you can find it in the books also, he formulated the prayer... and maybe even the pope read it~ no, I'm not sure who read it... and it was about, to, to make ourselves ready day after day, to trust the mystery of faith. Together with all these witnesses. Which is a way to say, it's not because I have now a better understanding, or finally clear understanding of God, or of the church, or of the Eucharist, that I'm on the right place... but it’s this more... humble attitude, to say, it's something which I didn't create, and my church didn't create, in Bern, or... the Catholic Church didn't create at Tridentium or I don't know, but it is something that has been handed over, you know, this long history... And that was extremely important for me, this kind of uh, leaving the individualistic problematic of howmuch do I understand, or agree, or not agree, and rather say, there is, there is something like this given, handed over.409 TB, thus, experiences the Eucharist as something that he receives without fully understanding it. He feels like he has to trust the tradition, the mystery of faith, which is beyond his comprehension. As expressed in Brother Roger’s prayer, 409 TB-1,4e.
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