The division of the Christians is "in contradiction" with "the will of Christ, who prayed for everybody to be one thing just before he died". Yesterday, those words were spoken by Card. Walter Kasper, president of the Papal del Council for the promotion of Christian unity, in the homily pronounced yesterday evening during the celebration of the Corpus Domini feast in the Catholic Cathedral of God’s Mother in Moscow. The Eucharist said the cardinal is "the sacrament of unity. It makes up the unity of the Church, and it is the sign of the unity of the Church. In his latest encyclical, Pope John Paul II recalled this old tradition of the Orient and the West. If we ponder over this truth, we realize how absurd it is for Christians to be divided in the celebration of the Eucharist; it is also absurd that they cannot eat the same bread and drink from the same chalice". (To be continued)
