[adiaireton8]

Do you believe for one minute that +Sfeir jumps when the pope says jump, not that even +BXVI would try to tell him what to do? How long do you think it would take for the Patriarch of the Melkites to jump ship if Rome presumed to tell him what to do, let alone what to believe?

Why do you speculate on the strength of this relation? Are you trying to separate what God has joined together? It is enough that there is full communion there. Something you and I presently lack. Let us not tear down what has already been joined together, by speculating about the strength of the relation, based on hypotheticals. Let us instead focus on *our* task, which is getting ourselves in full communion with each other. Satan would greatly delight in weakening or breaking those unions which the Spirit through charity and humility has effected.

-A8

[Kolokotronis]

"It is enough that there is full communion there. Something you and I presently lack. Let us not tear down what has already been joined together, by speculating about the strength of the relation, based on hypotheticals. Let us instead focus on *our* task, which is getting ourselves in full communion with each other."

I see RCIA left out the section on what communion means too. You and I are not in communion with each other now, nor will we ever be. My ancestors 1500 years ago were not in communion with yours, unless they were bishops. Communion is a relationship between bishops, A.