CHRISTIANS AND YORUB
A PEOPLE EATING
TOGETHER
Eucharist and Food Offerings
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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 can’t be dialogue between Christians and
Muslims if there isn’t a common practice. Any other dialogue out-
side of a common practice is just discussion. Byzantine nonsense.
Frei Betto
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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
Candombl e (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 Brazil’s reality and
the format of praxis proposed here can perhaps illustrate the growing
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