CHRISTIANS AND YORUB A PEOPLE EATING TOGETHER Eucharist and Food Offerings 1 Cl audio Carvalhaes We only live by doing. Without doing, we are just existing. Padre Vieira I am only interested in what is not mine. Oswald de Andrade Religions and religious differences are an active and inseparable ele- ment of the cultural and political dynamics that are transforming the meaning of social and political connections in our time, when expressed from below, as emancipatory. Joanildo Burity I would say that there cant be dialogue between Christians and Muslims if there isnt a common practice. Any other dialogue out- side of a common practice is just discussion. Byzantine nonsense. Frei Betto T his chapter presents the possibility of a broader form of Eucharistic hospitality which builds on early church practices and is consonant with the ongoing work of our spiritual/faithful reformata semper refor- manda reformed and always reforming. By exploring a possible relation between two religions in Brazil, Christianity (the Reformed branch) and Candomble (an African Brazilian religion), I am trying to expand the inter-religious, racial, and global vocabulary, practices and notions of Eucharistic hospitable prayers. The issues at stake in Brazils reality and the format of praxis proposed here can perhaps illustrate the growing © 2017 Association for Religion and Intellectual Life MARCH 2017 . 105 MARCH 2017 . 105