The new Temple of our self - offering is Jesus's Risen Body into which the Christian is
incorporated by Baptism and of which he partakes in the Eucharist.
Not exact matches
We are made in God's image to respond to him with the God - breathed spirit that gives life to our finite bodies; and we are called
by name in the waters of
baptism, in which we are
incorporated into the life of the One whom the Father calls his beloved Son.
Introduction: «
By the sacrament of
baptism a person is truly
incorporated into Christ and into his Church and is reborn to a sharing of the divine life.
By baptism and by faith he has incorporated us as members of his bod
By baptism and
by faith he has incorporated us as members of his bod
by faith he has
incorporated us as members of his body.
And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we,
by Baptism, are
incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.
Tertullian said, «When you see your brother, you see your Lord»; for every son of man, more particularly those who,
by Baptism, have been
incorporated into the mystical Body of Christ, may be venerated as one in whom God's Spirit dwells.
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By the sacrament of
baptism a person is truly
incorporated into Christ and into his Church and is reborn to a sharing of the divine life.
People are «
incorporated into the Church
by baptism,»
baptism, therefore, constitutes the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are «reborn `.
Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood
baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological person of the Messiah, conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and
incorporating them into the company of those redeemed
by the Christ.