” “Sometimes we might "be tempted to make a selection of Christ’s Word, to understand, in the text of the Gospel, only those passages that suit us. The big risk here is a tailor-made Christianity". Card. Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux and vice-president of Ccee, drew attention to this problem at the heart of his homily at Mass on Saturday 8th September, on the last day of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly in Sibiu. To avoid this risk, added the cardinal, a revision is required which must be done "from a personal perspective, from the perspective of the community, and from the perspective of the church". A process, he specified, that might seem "too hard sometimes", but, he stated, with reference to the unity of the Christians, "don’t let’s forget that this appeal of the Lord is not just the expression of a need, but also the promise of a gift. It is Christ who gives us the strength to walk with Him". With reference to these words, the president of the Romanian Bishops Conferences, the archbishop of Bucharest, mgr. Ioan Robu, in his address after Mass, added that the Catholics’ great participation in the Sibiu Assembly "is the sign of their will to move on, with increasing awareness, along the ecumenical journey; it is a visible presence that recalls an invisible presence".” “
