CHAPTER 10: IMPLICATIONS II 257 research, designates a new and special place to the Eucharist in the ecumenical process: one that combines the two premises of the seemingly insoluble paradox of Fries and Rahner through a leap of faith and the willingness to maximize recognition and the exchange of gifts. 10.2 INCLUSIVE FAITHFULNESS FOSTERING ECCLESIASTICAL COALESCENCE Implication The communities act as ‘nodes’ in the network of confessional churches. The monastics express a growing, inclusive faithfulness towards multiple ecclesial traditions and a practical belonging to multiple denominations even when they continue to struggle tomaterialize this belonging properly. Still, their presence, including their Eucharistic practice, enables the different traditions to become ever more entangled so that denominational boundaries may continue to demarcate (liturgical) traditions but no longer divide the one body of Christ. Churches seeking reconciliation could benefit from this example by allowing more such places to emerge. This could include facilitating faithfulness towards multiple traditions through joint membership. Observations The interviews display a deep commitment to different ecclesial communities. With the main interest of my research question in mind, namely, the (in)ability of the Roman Catholic Church to offer Eucharistic hospitality towards nonCatholic Christians, I have focused on the relationships with the Roman Catholic Church on the one hand, and the churches of origin of the non-Catholic members of the communities on the other. I have witnessed a profound faithfulness towards both. The monasteries of Taizé and Bose have enabled the communities to remain members of the churches that nurtured their faith, as well as to live in communion with the Roman Catholic Church that they have learned to appreciate and love in the course of their lives. It must be said that this research has been selective in this regard: the relationships between the monastics (Catholic and other) and the non-Catholic churches represented in these communities, for example, did not get as much attention as those of the monastics and the Roman Catholic Church. It would certainly be interesting to explore the former relationships in more depth. Nevertheless, from what the Catholic interviewees have expressed throughout their interviews, one can conclude that the inclusive understanding of faithfulness and church membership is reciprocal.
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