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body and blood of Christ, under the doctrine of presence that church teaches.", "scope_statement": "Provisionally, this model owns communion as an enacted or experienced participation in a shared spiritual or relational reality, including sacramental instances where explicitly identified; the registry's intended meaning remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "The particular act or episode identified as communion and the basis for that identification", "Participants and the persons, community, sacred referent or reality with which communion is sought", "Practices, signs and material elements through which participation is expressed", "Participant intentions, consent and applicable conditions of participation", "Participant accounts and relevant community judgements about whether communion occurred" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A religious institution's governance, membership records and organisational structure", "The complete doctrine or theology of a religious tradition", "An entire worship service or liturgy surrounding a communion act", "Food production, catering and ordinary shared meals", "Communication understood solely as the transmission of information", "An enduring relationship or ecclesial affiliation beyond the particular act" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify what participants understand themselves to participate in or share beyond exchanging information; conversation alone does not establish communion.", "Require an explicit account of union, fellowship or shared participation; co-presence or synchronised activity alone is insufficient.", "For a meal identified as communion, record the meaning and recognition that distinguish it from ordinary eating together.", "Separate participation in the outward practice from a participant's reported experience of communion; neither automatically establishes the other.", "Record whether 'communion' names an act, an experience or an enduring affiliation; this ACT model primarily covers the first two." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Claimed sense of communion", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sacramental or ritual participation; interpersonal communion; spiritual communion; other stated sense; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which interpretations and participation conditions are relevant without assuming a religious meaning." }, { "name": "Communion participants and referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to participants and to the person, community, sacred referent or shared reality named in their account", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes communion among participants from communion directed towards a referent not represented as an ordinary attendee." }, { "name": "Mode of participation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Describe the enacted practice and each person's role, including receiving, sharing, contemplating, observing or abstaining where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Attendance, observation and participation may have different meanings." }, { "name": "Participation willingness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Expressed willingness; expressed refusal; withdrawn willingness; unclear; not recorded, attributed to each participant", "why_it_matters": "Prevents collective claims of communion from overriding an individual's stated position." }, { "name": "Attributed occurrence assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intended; reported as experienced; recognised under a named framework; disputed; reported as not experienced; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Keeps subjective experience and framework-specific recognition attributable rather than treating either as universal fact." }, { "name": "Applicable interpretive framework", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named tradition, community practice or participant-defined understanding, with its source and applicability", "why_it_matters": "Supports judgements about the particular act without importing another community's criteria." } ], "affordances": [ "Clarify the intended sense of communion before applying ritual or relational criteria.", "Record who participates, in what role, and with whom or what communion is sought.", "Compare a proposed act with documented conditions of its explicitly selected tradition or practice.", "Identify unresolved consent, participation or recognition questions before assisting with an act.", "Record differing participant experiences and community assessments without forcing agreement.", "Suggest clarification, invitation, accommodation or referral to a recognised practitioner when supported by the participants' wishes and applicable practice." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ccc-eucharist", "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed., nn. 1322-1419", "url": "https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM", "what_it_supports": "Catholic definition of the Eucharist and of receiving communion, including real presence, fruit of the sacrament, and Easter duty", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cic-1983", "title": "Code of Canon Law (1983), Book IV, cann. 844 and 897-958", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Latin-rite law on who may receive, the eucharistic fast, Easter communion, viaticum, reservation, and valid matter" }, { "id": "wcc-bem-1982", "title": "Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (Faith and Order Paper No. 111, Lima 1982)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Ecumenical account of the Eucharist as communion of the faithful and the churches, and of remaining disagreements over presence, ministry, and admission" }, { "id": "1cor-11", "title": "The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "New Testament institution of the Lord's Supper and the warning against unworthy or factional reception" }, { "id": "girm", "title": "General Instruction of the Roman Missal (typical edition 2002)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Roman rite of distribution, communion under both kinds, and the handling of remaining species" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-shared-referent", "name": "Meaning and shared referent", "description": "Establishes what communion means in this instance and what participants understand themselves to share.", "rationale": "The word alone cannot distinguish sacramental participation, relational intimacy and other experiences of union.", "layers": [ { "id": "sense-and-act-boundary", "name": "Sense and act boundary", "description": "Identifies the intended meaning and the particular episode being modelled.", "findings": [ { "id": "communion-identification", "name": "Communion identification", "description": "Record who calls this communion, their meaning, and whether the designation concerns an act or an experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does 'communion' mean to the people identifying this instance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "communion-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this episode from an enduring relationship, affiliation or surrounding gathering?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "communion-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "object-of-participation", "name": "Object of participation", "description": "Records the person, community or reality with which communion is understood to occur.", "findings": [ { "id": "shared-reality-account", "name": "Shared reality account", "description": "Capture participants' accounts of what is shared or participated in without asserting the truth of metaphysical claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "With whom or what is communion sought, and what does participation in it mean here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "shared-reality-account-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account establishes this referent, and do other participants understand it differently?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "shared-reality-account-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-admission", "name": "Participation and admission", "description": "Separates presence, willing participation and recognition as a participant.", "rationale": "An act 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a communion sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a communion from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a communion passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a communion between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a communion, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a communion is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a communion proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a communion, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a communion and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a communion consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a communion takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What communion is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of communion are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is communion operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of communion and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of communion?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as communion?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a communion came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a communion and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a communion is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a communion, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a communion, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a communion is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }