186 PART TWO: AN EMPIRICAL ACCOUNT because the Catholic Mass was downstairs in the crypt... and the Protestant Eucharist was upstairs in the big church.433 TB and TC both stress the provisionality of the evolving solutions. TB quotes from the community’s Rule: “it's a continuous... search, no? And this is written in the rule never stay, ne reste jamais sur place, no, don't, never stay in place, but follow, follow Christ.” 434 TC adds, referring to Brother Roger’s idea of provisionality: There's not been one way of doing things, that's why it's a little bit difficult to put it into writing, because it's, it's part of our evolutionary process, that is not finished probably... it's not that it's written in stone as a theory, but it's more... ... the brothers tried to find ways of going forward... And Brother Roger... ... as one of the... titles of his books... illustrates, no? he believed in the provisional. Dynamique du provisoir is the title of one of his books, I think in '65 or '66, and uh... so there are maybe no perfect solutions... but the main sin... would be immobility {laughs}. A sin would be immobility, would be to be paralyzed, to say we can do nothing... so even if there are no perfect solutions, we must go forward and find provisional, temporary solutions, until something else... something better... presents itself, and uh... and that's not only true for the Eucharist, it's true for many aspects of life at Taizé, but... I think it's also true for the Eucharist, there was no... maybe uh, great theory, or great... vision, that we have to put this into practice, for those... it was trying to... be together and, and find ways in being together, uh, and go towards reconciliation, and, and uh... so that meant, seeing what's possible, and um... ... and uh, accepting that some solutions are, what we say in French bancales, there, they limp a little bit, they're not perfect solutions, no?... They're solutions that allow us to go forward... ... ... ... .... In TC’s view, it is more important to move forward in ecumenism than to postpone progress in order to avoid all imperfections. The bigger problem, in his perception, would be immobility. From many perspectives (for example, canon law, dogmatics, liturgical studies, etcetera) the practice of Taizé may, indeed, be flawed and imperfect. To the monastics, this is not entirely unproblematic, as we will see in section 6.3. 433 TC-1,10a. 434 TB-2,12.
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