“It is the only Church of the Lord which convenes in Sibiu, in this ecumenical assembly of ours. Even if the historical journey of the ecumenical movement looks tiring and controversial, here we can live a similar experience to the one of Mount Tabor”: it was said today by card. Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Milan, in the morning biblical meditation of the third European Ecumenical Assembly which is hosted by Sibiu, Romania, until September 9th. “The journey of those who look for unity he added is a flight from oneself” and “requires the courage of giving oneself up, of being able to get lost to find oneself again in the only true identity of every Christian, which is Christ himself who lives in us. The deep identity of the Christian is not ethnical, or cultural, or confessional. It is eschatological, because in Christ we are already and not yet the children of God”. Then, card. Tettamanzi recalled that “without the Spirit and without the wait, the Church is only a religious organisation of this world, ecumenism is a diplomatic activity in search of successful bilateral relations, unity is the accomplishment at different times of a sociologically-winning ‘model of Church'”.
