CHAPTER 7: LIVING IN COMMUNION 211 Even stronger than BE, Brother TB indicates that he never regarded his Reformed denominational identity as particularly significant. He stresses the importance of belonging to the wide stream of Christianity: TR: What I explained you before, this thing of discovering the church... it, it... means that I'm at home in that church, of, of... of the body of Christ, which is through all the history, all over the world... and so, this belonging, because I was born there, and raised there, it doesn't, it's not so important... ... because it's, it's, this is ac~ not accident, Zufall, um Zufall, um... FW: Ah, ja ja, a chance, by chance, maybe TR: ...it's occasion, I don't know. Of, of history, and there I [-] things, but um, but if I would have come to live to somewhere else, when I was nineteen, twenty, and not in Taizé, probably I would now be, I don't know, um, I would be... Catholic in Spain, and Orthodox in Russian and, I don't know, probably, because pff um... it's belonging to, to the church, no? which matters.476 TB then refers to the use of the word ‘catholic’ in the creed, in which it does not indicate one particular denomination. Therefore, he is very hesitant to resort to the denominational use of the word ‘catholic’, or any other denominational adjective for that matter, when speaking of the Eucharist: “I would be very careful to introduce confessional notions into realities of faith....”477 Brother TC speaks in similar terms, though in a more theoretical way, referring to theologians he appreciates as well as Brother Roger: Godfried* says that in history... of the churches... we have come to put denominational identity as first, no? So, what denomination do you belong to? ... And then, we know that the church is somehow bigger than our denominations, no? So that is second place, the consciousness of the church is bigger than that. And then the last place is, of course, we're all baptized, no? We're all baptized {laughs} And according to Godfried... Brother Roger turned that around, no? And so, we are all baptized, that's our identity... we're all baptized. So, Brother used to talk like that sometimes, the baptized. And, and, because we are baptized, we're part of the church... and of course, we all have an origin {laughs}... you were born here, I was born there... Your family is this, my family is that, it's not what comes first, the 476 TB-1,20-22. Brother BF says something similar in BF-1,14b. 477 TB-1,36b.
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