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No. 3562.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1972.
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*AGREED STATEMENT ON EUCHARISTIC DOCTRINE •
Basis for dialogue only
THE DOCUMENT containing the "substantial agreement" arrived at by Cath• olic and Anglican groups meeting in an international Commission was released in London last week according to news sources reported locally. Some vagueness surrounds the timing and con- not cover, such as intercommunion and "that it is ditions of the release; no precise agency was not an agreement to recognise the validity of the eucharist when it is celebrated by an Anglican mentioned as having authorised publication. The conclusions of the conference, held at Wind- minister, or even that our Anglican colleagues have sor in September this year, had been passed to the recognised the validity of Mass celebrated by a authorities of both Churches for further study and Catholic priest. deliberation. The Australian Bishops have received "It is not on that level at all. It is a question the text and are due to discuss it at their meeting not of what any of us actually do, but of what we later this month. mean in doing it; what we think that a valid spokesmen atican reported are as being sur- eucharist is." V prised at the London issuance of the text but covThus any debate on the acceptance of the Anglican ered the situation with a surmise that it would have ministry of Orders was outside the scope of the eventually appeared in theological reviews. The Record on its front page of September 23, work even though press references to the history 1971, reported the successful conclusion of the meet- of that debate might have suggested prematurely ing and included extensive comment by Bishop that this and other questions of unity were close Butler, 0.S.B., Auxiliary of Westminster, in that to solution. Most comment has been cautious, thankful that. issue and the issue of October 14. Bishop Butler was a delegate to the meeting. He such an agreed basis for discussion between the explained that 'substantial' meant an agreement Churches has been offered for consideration, but wary of pretending that practical difficulties still that was something less than full. He expressly noted the areas that the study did do not exist.
THE STATEMENT
Pope Paul and Anglican Primate Archbishop Ramsay exchanged rings at the historical meeting at St. Paul's Basilica, Rome, at the end of the Vatican Council in 1965. Both leaders set up the joint commission of 18 members, nine from each church; i t was set up "to prepare the way for organic unity." Before this third meeting Pope Paul said, "Since we know how important these discussions are they are the object of our fervent prayer today, and we are united with our dear brother in Christ, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In preparing for its, fourth meeting in September, 1972, the commission announced that it would prepare doctrinally towards a consensus agreement on the ministry. The commission warned that the work of theologians is only one part of growing together. Relations at the local level are just as important. A useful preparation for healing divisions would be to discover more about the nature and extent of these divisions which are social and cultural as well as theological.
2. Through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has reconciled men to himself, • 1. In the course of the Church's history several and in Christ he offers unity to all mankind. By traditions have developed in expressing christian his word God calls us into a new relationship with death on the cross, the III THE PRESENCE OF self reconciliation, peace and life, to his own. On understanding of the eucharist. CHRIST (For example, himself as our Father and with one another as his culmination of his whole various names have become customary as descrip- children—a relationship inaugurated by baptism life of obedience, was 6. Communion with the one hand, the euchone, perfect and suf- Christ in the eucharist aristic gift springs out of tions of the eucharist: lord's supper, liturgy, holy into Christ through the Holy Spirit, nurtured and the ficient sacrifice for the presupposes his true the paschal mystery of mysteries, synaxis, mass, holy communion. The deepened through the eucharist, and expressed in a sins of the world. There presence, effectively sig- Christ's death and resurconfession of one faith and a common life of eucharist has become the most universally accepted can be no repetition of nified by the bread and rection, in which God's term.) An important stage in progress towards loving service. or addition to what was wine which, in this mys- saving purpose has alreaorganic unity is a substantial consensus on the then accomplished once tery, becomes his body dy been definitively reaI THE MYSTERY OF THE EUCHARIST Any for all by Christ. Purpose and meaning of the eucharist. Our inten3. When his people are gathered at the euchar- attempt to express a and blood.* The real lised. On the other hand, its purpose is to transtion has been to seek a deeper understanding of ist to commemorate his saving acts for our redemp- nexus between the sacri- presence of his body and mit the life of the crucithe reality of the eucharist which is consonant with can, blood however, only tion, Christ makes effective among us the eternal fice of Christ and the be understood within the fied and risen Christ to biblical teaching and with the tradition of our benefits of his victory and elicits and renews our eucharist must not ob- context of the redemp- his body, the church, so common inheritance, and to express in this docuresponse of faith, thanksgiving and self-surrender. scure this fundamental tive activity whereby he that its members may be ment the consensus we have reached. Christ through the Holy Spirit in the eucharist fact of the christian gives himself, and in himContinued on Page 15 Yet God has builds up the life of the church, strengthens its faith.* given the eucharist to his fellowship and furthers its mission. The identity church as a means of the church as the body of Christ is both expres- through which the sed and effectively proclaimed by its being centred atoning work of Christ cross the is in, and partaking of, his body and blood. In the on whole action of the eucharist, and in and by his proclaimed and made effsacramental presence given through bread and wine, ective in the life of the The notion of the crucified and risen Lord, according to his church. memorial as understood promise, offers himself to his people. in the passover celebra4. In the eucharist we proclaim the Lord's death tion at the time of Christ until he comes. Receiving a foretaste of the king- —i.e. the making effecdom to come, we look back with thanksgiving to tive in the present of an what Christ has done for us, we greet him present event in the last — has among us, we look forward to his final appearing opened the way to a understanding of USUALLY COME BACK FOR in the fullness of his kingdom when "The Son also clearer the relationship between himself (shall) be subject unto him that put all Christ's sacrifice and ANOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER the things under him, that God may be all in all" (1 Cor. eucharist. The eucharisAND ANOTHER . . . 15:28). When we gather around the same table tic memorial is no mere in this communal meal at the invitation of the calling to mind of a past same Lord and when we "partake of the one loaf", event or of its significwe are one in commitment not only to Christ and ance, but the church's to one another, but also to the mission of the effectual proclamation of God's mighty acts. Christ church in the world. instituted the eucharist as a memorial (anamII THE EUCHARIST AND THE SACRIFICE nesis) of the totality of OF CHRIST 5. Christ's redeeming death and resurrection God's reconciling action took place once and for all in history. Christ's in him. In the eucharistic prayer the church con• Glides silently on Nylofelt. A DULT EDUCATION tinues to make a perpetCLASSES • Waist high centre lift-lock operates L ANGUAGE COURSES ual memorial of Christ's double bar locking for added protection. Beginners to Advanced. February to November. ITALIAN — Day and Evening Classes. Tutor: A. Lutero death, and his members, • 149 production sizes for every application. GERMAN — Tutor: A. Kalotas. THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN FRENCH — Tutor: R. Pontre. • Removable mullions for double or united with God and one MODERN GREEK — Tutor: Dr. M. G. Carroll. CARS multiple installation. another, give thanks for SPECIAL CLASSES for JUNIOR, LEAVING and MATRICULATION. 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