Sentences with phrase «mystical body of»

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It was his as the true gospel because he was himself a man «in Christ» — and that phrase signified for him, as his letters make abundantly clear, that he was, and knew himself to be, what the Book of Common Prayer calls — in another phrase which yet is remarkably Pauline in expression — «a very member incorporate in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the blessed company of all faithful people.»

She has made the Gospel shine appealingly in our time; she had the mission of making the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, known and loved; she helped to heal souls of the rigours and fears of...

«The Church can not therefore be understood as the mystical body of Christ, as the sign of man's covenant with God in Christ, or as the universal sacrament of salvation unless we keep in mind the «great mystery» involved in the creation of man as male and female and the vocation to conjugal love, to fatherhood and to motherhood.»

She has made the Gospel shine appealingly in our time; she had the mission of making the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, known and loved; she helped to heal souls of the rigours and fears of Jansenism, which tended to stress God's justice rather than his divine mercy.

The members of Christ's body with Him as the head is the MYSTICAL BODY of Christ.

Robert Broderick in the Catholic Encyclopaedia (Nelson Nashville 1975) says that they «have promoted the spiritual lives of those who partake of them and have fulfilled in a singular manner the personal ministry of private and public devotion of the body of Christians who make up the Mystical Body of Christ».

This mundane political usage was mirrored by the Christian community which began to signify ecclesiastical dignitaries by the term, and then also all those Christians with standing in the community of the Church, and finally, all individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.

Rather, we find ourselves expanded by the gaze of the other within, in whose reflection (as in a mirror) we see all others also with the same eyes in whose loving gaze the many are being drawn into the one: the mystical body of Christ that is the Church.

This would impose categories of power and authority drawn from the sphere of earthly politics upon the Church, which is the mystical body of Christ.

As a Catholic I believe all believers are a part of the mystical body of Christ, the Church, and you shouldn't separate yourself from that.

Along comes the New Covenant, the Law of Love (rather than the Law of the Flesh), and within the freedom established by these absolute boundaries, establishes the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and the 7 Sacraments through which we become United to that Body of Christ, of which, one is Marriage.

The majoritty of RCC women of child - bearing age USE BC, thus the Mystical Body of Christ approves it.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.»

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.

I was taken aback to read Richard John Neuhaus» comments (While We're At It, December 1999) on my April 1999 article in Commentary and my response to Eugene Fisher in the letters section of the same journal (June / July) concerning the distinction between the Church as a human institution and as «the Mystical Body of Christ.»

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.

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

Thus to be made «a very member incorporate in the mystical Body of Christ» is to have the root of the matter in one.

The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ — the Church Christ began and remains with and within.

So much more could be said in this deepening of that most Catholic theme of the Mystical Body of Christ.

Even if it is held that Christ's true church, «the mystical Body of Christ,» is sinless, there is no existing, visible church of which this can be said.

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.

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.

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.

Reducing Masses, closing parishes, etc, is the «Eucharistic deprivation» of God's people and a grave wound to the Mystical Body of Christ.

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»?

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).

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.

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»».

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.

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.

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».

Such an organized body is indeed part of the picture, but the «mystical body of Christ» (in the well - known liturgical phrase) is not identical with it.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

More than ever, the mystical body of Christ needs the people of God.

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.

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.

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.

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

This means that its authority and its ministrations are not unambiguously one with the Mystical Body of Christ.

In the lowliness of fear and the thrill of danger we carry on the work of completing an element which the mystical body of Christ can draw only from us.

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.

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.

Too bad you never learned about The Mystical Body of Christ.

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.».

Again morals aren't derived from the «opinion» of any member of the mystical body of the church except for its head, God.

Not exact matches

You can't accept that atoms, molecules, chemical reactions in our bodies, and the rest of the universe just work somehow, but you can accept that a mystical all - knowing being simply created it all?

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

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 BodOf 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 Bodof your mystical Body.