160 PART TWO: AN EMPIRICAL ACCOUNT center of what we live together. In this sense, yes, I think it would… … I, yes, in my experience, so, I think, I would accept what Jürgen Moltmann writes in his biography, I, so he writes: ‘I decided once that every time when the Eucharist is celebrated I go and ask for receive the Communion.’ Uh, for me it would be the s~, so, it would make no sense for me, even to just be present, and not to be able to share what is celebrated, otherwise, I wouldn’t understand why to share only the liturgy, why not be able to share what is the sign, or the more visible sign of what the liturgy celebrates, this sharing…. Not just because I think that it’s a request to the other church to receive me, but, because if I take part in what is shared in the name of Christ, uh, I think we are all… yes, together {laughs} in his name, and I try to… yes, to share what is common, which means Christ, who is the one who makes us united….382 Interestingly, one could reinterpret the notion of ‘an ecumenism of the lowest common denominator’ as such: it is Christ whom we have in common, therefore, the least we could or should do is to share him in the sacramental signs of bread and wine. He is the “center of what we live together,” as BE puts it here. This makes him pose the rhetorical question: “We do it because we feel that it’s the way to live our life and if we don’t share, what is the center of our life, of our life as a whole?”383 Brother TC stresses this connection with the everyday life. Inspired by Yves Congar and Charles Taylor, he searches for authenticity in the Eucharist. The sacramental ritual of the Eucharist can only be authentic when it touches our everyday life. If the gestures, the gestures that we have in our liturgy are... appear artificial... and forced, uh... it will be a problem, no? So, we have to rediscover how they are réal gestures, no? And it's part of the challenge for the Eucharist, no? it's, when we say, peace be with you, or when we say uh... let's be reconciled, it has to be the place where something happens, no? That we see reconciliation, or when we share with the bread, or, when we share~ not here, but in churches you give money, people have to see what's going on.384 382 BE-2,2. 383 BE-2,60. 384 TC-1,26.
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