ABSTRACT
The profound communion which the Eucharist – and it alone – accomplishes emerges in a visible way only when those who preside at the Eucharistic celebration today everywhere in the world and who have presided at it since Pentecost as an image of Christ ‘gathering together in unity’ the people of God, are themselves united in one single ministerial body. They form in this way, in the multitude that they are, one single instrument of ecclesial gathering together. Tradition says that they are a college having for their core the ministry of unity of one among them. It sees there a requirement of communion.
