170 PART TWO: AN EMPIRICAL ACCOUNT surface. Something that is there, comes to the surface, and so maybe that's a little bit, in a way, something that happens here sometimes. That something of the undivided Christ appears, becomes visible, because some people are willing... to take that risk of living in the death and resurrection of Christ....404 For TC, faith and trust in the resurrection takes away the fear and enables him to embrace other traditions. This is how he experiences the fruits of the community’s practice, including sharing the Eucharist: That's how I think that's how I experience it, and.... and it would, that would be compromised... ... if we were to take sides, almost like, ah, my tradition has everything, my tradition has everything, uh? Then you would compromise that, you would lose that. You would lose it and uh... ... and it's uh... Because fear... is... ... the opposite, really, of resurrection, no? {laughs} When we're prisoners of fear, we're prisoners of death, in a way... uh? ... And one of the fruits of the resurrection is peace, right? The risen Christ says: ‘peace to you’ and, so one of the fruits of the resurrection is to find your identity in peace, not by being against, uh? Not by being against, so, it kind of make sense, no?405 In the experience of TA and TC, trust in God and in the resurrection make space for ecumenical growth and a genuine exchange of gifts as it frees one of fear of the other. TC observes that some of the Catholic guests, who may be worried about the practice of Eucharistic sharing, are reassured by the love of Christ that they recognize in the brothers.406 Brother TB speaks about trust in the Eucharist and the church based on trust in Christ. He paraphrases a question posed by Brother Roger: “who can define what happens?”407 He continues: “in, in the celebration of the Eucharist, and... ... it's a question of, of, that we trust the words of Christ, that we trust the faith of the church.”408 This notion of faith of the church is important to Brother TB. He explains that, in Taizé, he has learned to understand the diachronic dimension of the church better. A key term is ‘tradition’, the notion that what is lived and believed today is handed down through history. The fact that this faith 404 TC-1,22b. 405 TC-1,24. 406 TC-1,16. 407 TB-1,36. 408 TB-1,36.
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