Nick Crews, retired British nuclear submarine commander, will not likely be breakingbread with his three grown children at Christmas, or the next day, or for many to come.
Many Muslims and Jews at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts have been breakingbread at a unique college dining hall that opened two days after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Outside the villa, the main piazza of Castel Gandolfo was packed Saturday with well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of history: two popes breakingbread together and presumably discussing the future of the Catholic Church.
The source of engagement has nothing to do with breakingbread (or bread sticks) and everything to do with the extent to which trust, values and mission actually inspire and drive daily activities and interactions.