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Building Authentic Eucharistic Communities Through Beauty

Discover the essence of creating genuine local eucharistic communities through translated Scriptures, beautiful churches, and social dimensions of life. Explore how the Byzantine missionaries emphasized unity and preservation of converted peoples' identities. Learn about the Homogeneous Unit Principle and its impact on church growth.

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Building Authentic Eucharistic Communities Through Beauty

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  1. At the forefront was a desire to create an authentic local eucharistic community. Thus precedence was given totranslatingthe Holy Scriptures, [and] liturgical texts...as well as to the building of beautiful churcheswhich would proclaim – with the eloquent silence of beauty – that god had come to live amongst humanity....[There was also an] interest in the social and cultural dimensions of life....At the same time, the development of the vernacular and of a national temperament...helped preserve the personality of the converted peoples. Far from indulging in an administrative centralization...the Byzantine missionaries saw the unity of the extended church in its joint thanksgiving, with many voices but in one spirit...

  2. Homogeneous Unit Principle

  3. People like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers’. In other words where people are from similar social, ethnic or cultural background.

  4. ‘People become Christian fastest when least change of race or clan is involved.…’ • As a result homogenous churches grow fastest.

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