{"id":55079,"date":"2025-01-30T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cana.org\/ce-qui-nous-uni\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T08:17:07","slug":"ce-qui-nous-uni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cana.org\/en\/ce-qui-nous-uni\/","title":{"rendered":"What unites us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-extra-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo by Christophe Duperthuy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-f8f08e9b879d001fc3833340b3c7586c wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we met Frank and Clementina, an interfaith couple living in Berlin. 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What does this mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-1bcef382ecbce48269c8644d81a0fc00 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor us, this means that despite our different denominational traditions, we orientate and live our Christian faith according to what unites us, not what separates us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-8ad6b44ddb69c7b8c8c2a0eb6cd30e95 wp-block-paragraph\">Ecumenism, particularly in Germany, has gained momentum over the last century, is encouraged by both denominations and lived by the members, which we also feel as an interdenominational couple. (However, we mustn&#8217;t forget that we live in Berlin. Berlin is certainly not comparable to other cities and regions in Germany, nor to other countries.)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-e298b7ed0bf8b863f71bac7deda072e0 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What are your moments of joy in ecumenism? Where are there moments of tension?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-e6bd0f72c327994ecd7f010516a23480 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA joy: Together with another mixed couple, we have been running a marriage preparation course for engaged couples at the Bernhard Lichtenberg Catholic parish in Berlin for several years now. Here, too, we&#8217;re seeing an increase in the number of couples who don&#8217;t belong to just one denomination, which reinforces our commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we are actively involved with other Christians of different denominations in organizing an online prayer evening. The Chemin Neuf Community&#8217;s prayer for Christian unity is very touching for us, because the Holy Spirit is called to bring about Christian unity according to His will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Note: in the diocese of Berlin and other German dioceses, mixed couples have been able to take communion together for some time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-6b9283b3dd62208e40dca5af4cbb6d91 wp-block-paragraph\">As a tension: a few years ago this wasn&#8217;t even possible, there was always a perceptible separation for us at Sunday mass. Clementina, as a Catholic, could take part in the Eucharist, Frank, as a Protestant Christian, received a blessing from the priest. But I, Frank, also saw this blessing as a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-0bee1b9f133b667a1e012bf5e83dfcc8 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How can Mission CANA help mixed couples live out their faith? How did it work for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-09a68a1d57487345407b24b339ae5452 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe retreat weeks for couples in the CANA program, the exchange within the fraternities, i.e. with other couples, the time spent together, are, in addition to common prayer within the couple, offers and possibilities that enable couples to grow together in faith. Mutual support for couples with children is also very important, so that these couples can have time for themselves, which they don&#8217;t easily have on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-afa12650259f05ccff91f208dc30823b wp-block-paragraph\">One challenge might be to develop the CANA Welcome format to enable couples to take on pastoral work as a couple in their own parish, complementing it with mutual support through childcare as well as unconventional parish events such as dance evenings, cooking together, game nights, hikes, culture, etc. (just for fun, light-heartedly).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Interview with Frank and Clementina from Berlin, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we met Frank and Clementina, an interfaith couple living in Berlin. 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