Ecumenism at the local level

Abstract

Church unity is a gift of God to the Church. We can never begin to discuss the subject of Ectunenism in any relevant way unless we bear this truth in mind and consider it throughout as a most basic principle. And since unity is a gift of God, a grace, the recipient must prepare himself for it and dispose himself in a truly realistic way, lest it should remain unheeded and therefore ineffective. It is therefore the entire Church that must be ready for the grace of union, of fuller union, of that union which is willed by Christ and for which Christ has died on the Cross.