CHAPTER 4: MONASTIC VOCATION WITH ECUMENICAL IMPLICATIONS 137 TB adds that this, indeed, caused confusion amongst the guests. At the same time, expectations were high that the ecumenical momentum would soon result in general Eucharistic sharing. The former issue urged the brothers to find a new solution while the latter made them expect such a solution to be quite temporary. Therefore, Brother TB explains, the brothers ordained in Protestant churches chose not to preside over the community’s Eucharist any longer.334 Brother BE was also raised in a Reformed context. However, the liturgical movement had significant impact on his region of Switzerland. As a result, he was used to liturgical practices that resemble post-conciliar Roman Catholic liturgical renewal. He concludes: What we celebrated, so, it’s perhaps, somebody will call it sort of a high church, but anyway, the, the, some pastors, uh, at least one of the both, one of the two pastors, which was in my parish when I was a child, or even later, um… was really very… liturgically high church. Um… and so, I was used to that, and it’s what I was looking for, when I was going to a celebration, uh, and in this sense what you said is true, uh, the catholic, Roman catholic liturgy didn’t gaveme the impression to be too organized, too uh… legalistic, or whatever you want to call it, uh… because I, yes, I was used to that, and I was looking for that when I… … when I went to church.335 In Bose, he found what he had been looking for, liturgically speaking. As such, the Catholic liturgy in Bose sparked a feeling of home-coming rather than alienation. BE even prefers it over Reformed liturgies less influenced by the liturgical movement: Sunday celebrations in which you only had one prayer and a reading along a homily or sermon, and then intercession, uh, our father and the end, for me, has, was never… enough, because in my parish uh, there were, yes, more organized liturgies, uh, which were celebrated, and I, I grew up with that. Here, I didn’t feel it as something new, something strange to me, because it’s what I always had, had experience in my previous life….336 Still, his main conviction is that Catholics and Reformed live out the same faith, just in different forms. For BE, the liturgies of different churches are not only similar in appearance but also in meaning and significance. Speaking of 334 TB-1,4d. This development will be addressed in more detail in section 0. 335 BE-1,76. 336 BE-1,74.
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