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At-one-ment

The "Unity Week" or more specifically the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an opportunity for reflection, and above all to pray before the sad fact of our disobedience to Christ who wants us together in unity.

This year, the week has a particular significance because it is a 100 th anniversary. The "Octave for Unity of the Church" was held for the first time in 1908 at the initiative of Father Paul Wattson, Episcopal priest and cofounder of the Society of the Atonement (Brothers and Sisters Franciscans of Reconciliation). The English word "atonement" can be read at-one-ment ", thus trying to say" once again become a "what is the meaning of the French word" reconciliation. " This week, the Catholic Church rightly proposes to use the Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation.

World Concern is not just that of the Catholic Church but also the World Council of Churches (WCC was founded in 1948), which is a forum aimed unity of Church of Christ. It is a place where the 347 member churches can sit and talk and reflect, pray, work together. Commission on Faith and Order (CFC) is a key role to play. Its purpose is to bring together theologians of various communions to study the theological and practical difficulties that prevent the unit. The document "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" is since 1982 a document of great moral authority.

It was not until 2011 that the Orthodox and other Christians will celebrate Easter on the same date. It seems that great efforts of reconciliation should address this point. Unfortunately, if an astronomical method to decide the date of Easter was established jointly, it would require a greater adjustment from our Orthodox brothers ...

An interesting initiative is the establishment of a joint calendar of saints. It seems to me that many non-Catholic Christians who shed their blood for their faith in Christ during the 20 th century are worthy of worship as Catholics. I am full of admiration for the photo of the gate of the Abbey of St. Maurice Catholic, Switzerland (http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/press_corner/martyrsdoor.html). Each stone is engraved with the name of a martyr of the faith, religious affiliations and backgrounds are very diverse. The FCC invites the churches to look elsewhere than in their court to find witnesses to the faith.

One area where cooperation between the Churches is easy and rewarding work for social justice, especially for education and advocacy. In Canada, Kairos is one such model. If I understand correctly, the Catholic Church is not a full member of the World Council of Churches. But it is surely Kairos, because the president is a religious Catholic priest, and three of the ten members are instances Catholics Conference of Catholic Bishops of Canada, the Canadian Religious Conference, Development and Peace (which I am an active member, as secretary of the Diocesan Council francophone d'Ottawa).

The FCC considers might be to agree on the content of the apostolic faith by agreeing on understanding the Nicene-Constantinople, which is a summary of the essentials of the faith . The churches have united or uniting have many challenges, and the dialogue which brings together and what divides us is far from achieving spectacular results, but we must hope and persevere. We are invited to quitting, preparing to put aside superficial identity marks for sticking to the essentials of a common faith to retain or regain. It is not a search of the lowest common denominator, but to reconnect with the apostolic and patristic faith, without sacrificing the truth.

It is far (barring a miracle) to see the light at the end of the tunnel ecumenical, but we are not wrong in praying together for the project to the Father of us gather in His Son come true one day.

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If Jesus said: "I am meek and humble of heart" (Mt 11:29), he said: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14 9) and "I and the Father are one" (Jn 10:3), it follows that the Father is meek and humble of heart, that God is Trinity meek and humble of heart. "The Son of man came not to be served but to serve and give His life a ransom for many." (Matthew 20:28)

St. Thomas somewhere an image of saisisante the humility of God. He says God is like an apple tree laden with fruit so that it choice but to bend its branches to the ground. God is tilted toward us, tilted at ground level. The earth is humus, whence comes the word "humility." Praise God for his humility!

Lord, you are all there, the toddler, all-discrete, all-sensitive, all-abiding, all sweet, all-humble, all-addressed, all-close, the all-friend, the all-hidden, all-cleared, the all-patient, all-merciful, all-observant, all-dependent, all-down, all-down, the all-modest, all-dedicated, all-servant, the all-helpful, all-good, the very-low, all-powerless, all-given the all-delivered, all-paid, all-forsaken, all-skinned, all-poor, all there ...

The child of the manger is the image of a God who is without means, helpless, totally dependent on us. Jesus nailed to the cross is the image of God left entirely to our discretion. The Good Shepherd who cares for his sheep and gives his life for them is the image of the perfect servant. The father of the prodigal who flout leash and cheat, who waits and who watches, who welcomes with joy, without reproach is the image of God humblissime.

God is like a king left on a trip and leaves the responsibility of running the house with his servants. In reality, it is perhaps even more as in the parable that follows.

The kingdom of heaven is like a family that has won the lottery a month's stay in Acapulco in a luxurious villa on the seaside paradise This place belonged to a billionaire who preferred to keep anonymity. They were welcomed with open arms by a butler, who made them visit the site and told them: "The owner lets you know that everything is at your disposal. Of Similarly, you have three servants to meet your needs: myself, my wife and my son. We'll take care of the household, cooking, land, everything. Just tell us what you want. "Amazed, parents and their three children took advantage of the full amenities. They often asked for employees who could be their mysterious host, but the answer was that he preferred to remain incognito. After a week, visitors were at home and even took liberties. They abused the kindness of a few servants and did not care too much for their help life. The latter continued to fill their service with gentleness and effectiveness. Only later, six months after returning home that the mystery cleared. During a television program, they recognized their three servants as the three members of a wealthy family in Mexico known for his philanthropy.

A corollary of the staggering reality of Christ and humble servant of God and humble servant is that I should consider myself me-lead and act as a humble servant. My inner attitude towards my family and all those I meet should be: "I am your humble servant." That this is not a polite old-fashioned, but a reality assumed and put into action. Since I belong to Christ, I will do my best to think and act like it would in my place to serve and give my life from day to day, with humility. I can count on the prayers of those who called himself "humble servant" of God.

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Christmas January 8!

Although I am "Roman Catholic", I had the pleasure to attend the Christmas mass, 8 January 2008 in a Greek Orthodox parish in Ottawa (attached at end of account the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), there accompanying my friend Ken who is Orthodox 21 years and who needed a ride. I loved the church and the liturgy.

The church has a dome with an image of Christ Pantocrator who are watching us dive. There are thirty icons. I had time to go round by worshiping my way and I found several that were very beautiful. The characters of the iconostasis (the wall separating the choir from the nave) are life size. I recognized Christ and the Blessed Virgin on each side of a central arch door opened and two archangels located on two side doors closed.

In front of the church, there were two beautiful lecterns on icons (one of Jesus and Mary), decorated on three sides of a kind of stole. The faithful came to venerate them by inclination, by kissing, by lighting a candle and putting beeswax on stanchions supporting each thirty candles lit. At the rear of the church, there was also an icon of the Nativity in worship.

The celebration of the Mysteries was done according to the rite of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (mostly in English but also in Slavonic). I noticed that the elements main mass were there, but packaged and ordered differently. The role of the deacon was very important prayers, incense multiplied, etc.. The singing of the choir was very harmonious. The prayers were very long and we were standing most of the quarter past two that it lasted.

marked differences with our Catholic way of making me hooked. The "I believe in God" said "I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father." (Point!) Epiclesis, prayer that asks the Spirit to come on donations for change the body and blood of Christ, was pronounced after the story of the institution of the Eucharist. It seems to me that taught me that transubstantiation takes place during the recitation of the words "This is my ...." I wonder what is the precise moment for the Orthodox? Communion is in both kinds: the consecrated Bread form of small pellets soaked in the consecrated wine was caught with a small spoon and deposited in the mouth. Small children also communed. There was even a baby carried in her arms as her mother gave communion.

Do not communicate hurt me. It hurt every time a prayer spoke of unity. The disunity of Christians in general bother me. I have nothing against the diversity of rites, the diversity of traditions, diversity of expressions of faith, but it seems to me that the prayer of Jesus for us to be "one as he and the Father are One" is a conviction disunity among our fellow Christians. I offered my sorrow for the visible unity of the Church. Our baffles steeples are a scandal, a stumbling block for the people we want to evangelize. ("When you hear you, you come talk to us!")

I'm not in favor of intercommunion in general, because it is a form of lying. This means that our differences are superficial and that in the background we are similar. In fact, the substantive differences are serious enough to not receive communion from the same family table. I welcome the points where we meet, but I can not understand why we can not even agree to celebrate the day of Easter on the same day.

The various churches all claim: "I believe in the Church one, holy, catholic and apostolic." What does that mean exactly? It's beautiful words in the air! Christ is not a polygamist! I think that he will not celebrate the marriage of the Lamb as his fiancee will not really "one, holy, catholic and apostolic."