Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Eucharistic Ecclesiology in a nutshell

From The Tablet, 18 February 2006 -

'The Eucharist is the sacrament of the Church, the sacrament of sacraments – wherever it’s celebrated by a legitimately consecrated priest, the Church is present and it’s possible to live the fullness of the church experience. No primacy can be exercised at the expense of this catholic fullness of the local Church. Yet in the [Roman] Catholic Church, the Pope projects his ecclesiastical power over the whole earth. This complicates relations with Orthodox sister Churches.'

-Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk, president of the theological commission of the Russian Church’s governing Holy Synod.

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