Sentences with phrase «mystical body»
The phrase "mystical body" refers to a spiritual concept that describes a group of people who are united through their faith and connection to a higher power, such as God. It emphasizes the belief that believers are connected to one another in a special way, forming a spiritual entity that is beyond physical boundaries. Full definition
At a time when individualism was still, generally speaking, obscuring the fullness of traditional catholic teaching on this mystery, he wrote: «When Christ comes to one of his faithful it is not simply in order to commune with him as an individual;... when, through the mouth of the priest, he says Hoc est corpus meum, these words extend beyond the morsel of bread over which they are said: they give birth to the whole mystical body of Christ.
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Yet, the Church, Jesus Christ's mystical body today, is multi-colored.
Again morals aren't derived from the «opinion» of any member of the mystical body of the church except for its head, God.
Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».
They saw in such global commerce a worldly illustration of the unity of the human race and how the mystical body of Christ works, each distinctive part contributing to the others.
Although often allied with religion (Christianity's «Mystical Body»), this yearning goes back at least as far as the Pre-Socratics and their preoccupation with the One and the Many.
She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with...
It is what makes the Church Christ's extended or Mystical Body.
The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ — that institution which, despite the failings of her human members, Christ founded and which he continues to will.
In spite of the vicissitudes of human history the developing sequence of events that constitute the history of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is simply non-negotiable.
Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly as the organizing force of your mystical Body.
This means that its authority and its ministrations are not unambiguously one with the Mystical Body of Christ.
Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..
This prayer, too, is prayer of the baptized who are fortified by the Spirit, of men and women filled with grace and incorporated in the mystical Body of Christ.
Objectivity could perhaps lead Roman Catholic theologians to see that formal institutionalism is alien to the New Testament while voluntaristic Protestants might see that the mystical body of Christ has «space» in the world and is where Jesus Christ is to be found.
Jesus in the scriptures speaks many times of His Bride but His Bride is not human but is the Holy Catholic Church (The New Jerusalem) who is the mystical body of Christ.
Asserting that God and Jesus are literally father and son, that Jesus and Jehovah are one and the same, and that even the Holy Spirit is somehow located in time and space, these new Saints clothed the mystical body of Christ with the real flesh of Mormonism and started out to build up Zion, drawing biblical parallels every step of the way.
In the 1943 encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (On the Mystical Body of Christ), Pius XII addressed the meaning of membership in the Church, but, as Cardinal Dulles writes, Vatican II took a somewhat different approach.
Likewise, First Things» questions and your contributors» answers show a fundamental misunderstanding of the charism of the papacy and the function of the mystical body.
The priests and bishops are limbs of the popes mystical body in a real sence, and the pope is head of this mystical body.
Through and in the passion of his mystical body, Christ continues actively to perform the task for which he came; he acts as the Savior and Redeemer of mankind.
Being an evangelical Protestant, a Baptist, indeed a Southern Baptist, are all important markers of my place within the community of faith, but there is a more primary confession I must make: I am a trinitarian Christian who by the grace of God belongs to the whole company of the redeemed through the ages, those who are «very members incorporate in the mystical body of Christ» (Book of Common Prayer).
In the first place quantitatively, by the addition to the Mystical Body of an increasing multitude of human souls, «until the number shall be complete».
The mystical body of Christ tells us that we are one body in Christ — St Paul's writings — Jesus the Head and we are its members.
The identity of the local church is, in turn, strengthened by an awareness of sharing in larger circles of identity — the denomination, other branches of the mystical Body of Christ, and in the largest circle — the family of God.
Walls attributes to this document the teaching that «the Mystical Body of Christ, which although the same entity as the visible Church in which it subsists is nonetheless to be distinguished from theChurch «constituted and organised as a society in the present world»».
She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.
We Catholics believe that the Catholic Church («Roman», if you wish) is, as Pius XII puts it: the «true Church of Christ», His «Mystical Body».
Roland Walls and The Scots Confession Dear Fr Editor Catholic theology does not make «a distinction between the mystical body of Christ and the Church visible on earth» as Fr Walls claimed in his article (Faith Nov / Dec 2002).
Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).
If, on the other hand, it is «distinguished» from the «Mystical Body of Christ» how can the latter be «the same entity as the visible Church»?
Reducing Masses, closing parishes, etc, is the «Eucharistic deprivation» of God's people and a grave wound to the Mystical Body of Christ.
I am sure that Augustine would have urged the «Protestants,» as he did the Donatists, to stay inside the one Mystical Body of Christ so as not to break the bonds of unity in Christ.
As the Mystical Body of Christ in which truth and grace dwell, the ecclesia represents the thread of transcendent meaning that runs through the moments of time.