By ecumenism, I do not mean to blend different traditions but I mean to focus on what is common. In doing so, one discover what is fundamental. One of the main obstacles to fulfill the aim of ecumenism, is the lack of acceptance of intercommunion by the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches with other Christian churches.
For Catholics and Orthodox, Transubstantiation - Catholic and Orthodox (terminology differs) concept of Christ fully, truly and substantially present in the Eucharist with the physical species being substantially absent. The communion can only been operated by ordained ministers, repeating the sacrifice of Jesus. The real body of Jesus in the bred has sometimes strange phenomenon, I remember seen a female teen in the Philippines, eating an host transformed in a bloody piece of meat. I found this aspect, rather repulsive.
For Protestants, there is only one event, the last supper of the Lord effected by before His passion, 2000 years ago. Because, No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6.44). There is one God, there is one mediator between God and human kind, Christ Jesus, Himself human who gave Himself a ransom for all. (Timothy 2.5)
In their Leuenberger agreement, Lutherans and reformed agreed, that in the Lord's Supper the risen Jesus Christ imparts himself in his body and blood, given for all, through his word of promise with bread and wine. He thus gives himself unreservedly to all who receive the bread and wine; faith receives the Lord's Supper for salvation, unfaith for judgment. We cannot separate communion with Jesus Christ in his body and blood from the act of eating and drinking. To be concerned about the manner of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper I abstraction from this act is to run the risk of obscuring the meaning of the Lord's Supper.
http://oga.pcusa.org/ecumenicalrelations/resources/formula.pdf
For janwoG, during the last supper, at the time I accept the bread and the wine as the sign of the spiritual body and spiritual wine, I associate to the unique institution of Jesus which transcends space and time, I participate to the mystical body of Jesus. Hence, whether the body and blood are materially real in bred and the wine or if it is a sign where the spiritual body of Christ appears in that sacrament, the aim is the same and one may be able to agree on that in intercommunion.
Let us hope in the future, that the last supper helps us to fulfill the commandment of Jesus to be one with Him, and through Him one with the heavenly Father, in order that our Gospel will be credible to human kind.
For Catholics and Orthodox, Transubstantiation - Catholic and Orthodox (terminology differs) concept of Christ fully, truly and substantially present in the Eucharist with the physical species being substantially absent. The communion can only been operated by ordained ministers, repeating the sacrifice of Jesus. The real body of Jesus in the bred has sometimes strange phenomenon, I remember seen a female teen in the Philippines, eating an host transformed in a bloody piece of meat. I found this aspect, rather repulsive.
For Protestants, there is only one event, the last supper of the Lord effected by before His passion, 2000 years ago. Because, No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6.44). There is one God, there is one mediator between God and human kind, Christ Jesus, Himself human who gave Himself a ransom for all. (Timothy 2.5)
In their Leuenberger agreement, Lutherans and reformed agreed, that in the Lord's Supper the risen Jesus Christ imparts himself in his body and blood, given for all, through his word of promise with bread and wine. He thus gives himself unreservedly to all who receive the bread and wine; faith receives the Lord's Supper for salvation, unfaith for judgment. We cannot separate communion with Jesus Christ in his body and blood from the act of eating and drinking. To be concerned about the manner of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper I abstraction from this act is to run the risk of obscuring the meaning of the Lord's Supper.
http://oga.pcusa.org/ecumenicalrelations/resources/formula.pdf
For janwoG, during the last supper, at the time I accept the bread and the wine as the sign of the spiritual body and spiritual wine, I associate to the unique institution of Jesus which transcends space and time, I participate to the mystical body of Jesus. Hence, whether the body and blood are materially real in bred and the wine or if it is a sign where the spiritual body of Christ appears in that sacrament, the aim is the same and one may be able to agree on that in intercommunion.
Let us hope in the future, that the last supper helps us to fulfill the commandment of Jesus to be one with Him, and through Him one with the heavenly Father, in order that our Gospel will be credible to human kind.
