Imperative Call to Christian Unity
Daraus ein Zitat:
In this incarnational religion, the Church is not an optional extra but an essential part. Jesus drew his followers into a community that was to express the life of the new and redeemed creation that he brought about. Christians are caught into the life of Christ. The Church in the great images of Scripture is the body of Christ, a holy temple, sharing the life of its Lord as the branches are one with the vine. (...)
When Pope and Archbishop meet, as Christians sharing a common baptism, and professing so much of a common faith, it must surely be a meeting that is a sign and sacrament of the imperative call to unity, witnessing to the peace of God, which passes our human understanding and which is yet the community of love for which at the deepest human level each one of us longs.