Posted on 03/17/2021 5:38:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Mar 16, 2021 / 01:00 pm MT (CNA).- Catholics and Protestants in Germany announced on Tuesday that they would press ahead with intercommunion at an event in May despite Vatican objections.
In a March 16 press release, organizers of the third Ecumenical Church Congress (ÖKT) in Frankfurt said that they planned to invite Christians to attend celebrations “in many churches” in the city and across Germany on May 15.
According to CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, they said: “Christians of all denominations have the opportunity on this evening to come and enter, to get to know different traditions and -- following their own conscience -- to celebrate the living memory of Jesus Christ.”
“The signal should go out from Frankfurt to continue to seek ecumenical togetherness, in everyday life and in the mutual visit of congregations.”
The press release quoted Thomas Sternberg, president of the influential Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), as saying that any baptized Christians could make a “decision of conscience” to partake of the celebrations, based on a statement of “Common Witness” adopted in the fall of 2020 by the ÖKT’s leadership.
“The doors are open,” said Sternberg, who is also co-president of the German Church’s controversial “Synodal Way,” together with the German Catholic bishops’ conference president Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg.
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Makes no sense. Catholics believe it’s the body and blood of Christ. Protestants don’t.
I’d love to see the Vatican simply excommunicate these Cardinals an Bishops, making it widespread knowledge that they are outside the official church. If people want to attend these churches, then they are obviously free to do so, but it would be clear that they are attending a schismatic church. That would bring a whole new level of seriousness to the discussion.
Ping
Whether you think one way or the other, by God’s design it either is, or it isn’t, and it’s none of us gets to pick.
I’ve never tasted either meat or blood in my teeth of a Sunday morning, have you?
No?
So it’s ALL a matter of sheer belief that has zero effect on what God may or may not be doing in your mouth as you partake; it’s what He’s getting done in your heart that’s essential no matter what congregation you frequent.
Its called faith. That’s why there are different sects of Christianity.
To believe, really believe, in transsubstantiation, is to be awestruck. Reduced to crumbs, humiliated, and painstakingly reconstructed bit by bit according to a blueprint you could never have dreamed up by yourself. Talk about God getting something done in your heart.
Faith. Belief. Semantics.
We aren’t called to faith in what the eucharist is or isn’t, we’re called to faith in Who Christ Jesus most assuredly is. And THAT is true of EVERY follower of Jesus in EVERY congregation no matter what the sign out at the curb says.
Do we eat the Lord’s Supper or is the Lord supper?
Asking for a friend.
Yes, but the Catholic Church is not a congregation.
Honestly, some of you people are like Democrats: you just can’t believe that anybody else has a right view but you, and for sure there’s nothing you’ve got wrong.
Any wonder the Vatican is more and more politically left all the time?
Birds of a feather...
EVERY Christian group in worship is the ecclesia, the gathering, the assembly, the congregation.
Don’t be pedantic.
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