Baptismal and Eucharistic Identity as the people of God

The rationale for the conciliar shape (of church governance) is neither balance of powers or democratic representation and procedure. The rationale is first and foremost our baptismal and eucharistic identity as the people of God.

... from the very shape of the eucharistic assembly, as Fr. Afanasiev showed, we recognize it is only mutual love that has primacy (vlast’ lyubvi), not law or rank. (The Church of the Holy Spirit, 255-276).

-- Fr. Michael Plekon, "A Hundred Years of a Conciliar Church," ocanews.org, 4/6/09