BEATO DI LIÉBANA, The Last Judgment

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECUMENICAL COMMEMORATION 

INTERNATIONAL ECUMENICAL SYMPOSIUM

Bose, 29 October - 2 November 2008

In collaboration with the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches the community of Bose organizes an international Symposium on the ecumenical meaning of the commemoration of the martyrs. 

There is a growing awareness that contemporary witnesses to the faith do not belong only to individual confessional groups but, as in the first centuries of the Christian era, are a source of inspiration for all the Churches. Similarly, significant witnesses of the faith from the past no longer belong exclusively to the confessional group in which they were formed, but are the common heritage of the one catholic Church. Continuing ecumenical worship has created a demand for new contents, and this provides a context in which the commemoration of such witnesses might play an important role. This would meet at least in part the need many already feel to receive the gifts embedded in the history of others and encourage others to explore this rich and vital field of mutual understanding and experience for themselves membership in one Body of Christ.

PROGRAM

From Bangalore 1978 to Bose 2008:
Introduction to the Symposium
Tamara Grdzelidze, Genève; Guido Dotti, Bose

THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER

Keynote Message
Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, London
read by Jonathan Goodall, London

Witnessing and Martyrdom in the Bible
Enzo Bianchi, prior of Bose

3:00 PM

Controversies on Commemorating:
Results of Ecumenical Dialogues
Mary Tanner, Stanford

How Do Our Churches Commemorate?
Greek Orthodox: Panaghiotis Yfantis, Thessaloniki
Roman Catholic: Marco Gnavi, Roma
Lutheran: Bjørdal Øystein, Molden
Pentecostal: Dale M. Coulter, Virginia Beach

Discussion in Groups

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