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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"Jesse Gomez" |
| Date: |
02 Jan 2004 07:02:26 AM |
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Communion of Saints ? |
COMMUNION OF SAINTS
The Church believes that the perfection achieved by the faithful is
not extinguished at death, but lives on in heaven, as the holy ones
take their places as newly perfected members of the Mystical Body.
1 Cor. 12: 12-27 -- "But God has so constructed the body as to give
greater honor to a part that is without it, so that there may be no
division in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for
one another. If [one] part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if
one part is honored, all the parts share its joy."
Gal. 1: 22-23 -- "And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him
as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness
of the one who fills all things in every way."
Eph. 4: 15-16 -- "Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in
every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body,
joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper
functioning of each part, brings about the body's growth and builds
itself up in love."
Eph. 5: 21-29 -- "For the husband is head of his
wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of
the body."
Gal. 3: 28 -- "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you
are all one in Christ Jesus."
Col. 1: 18 -- "He is the head of the body, the church."
Rom. 12: 4-8 -- "For as in one body we have many parts, and all the
parts do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body
in Christ and individually parts of one another."
Rom. 8: 35-39 -- Paul is clear. Not even death can separate the
faithful from Christ or one another: "What will separate us from the
love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?... No, in all these things we
conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us."
Col. 3: 15 -- "And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the
peace into which you were also called in one body."
1 Cor. 10: 17 -- The Church is one in Christ in the Eucharist:
"Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for
we all partake of the one loaf."
In 350 A.D., St. Cyril wrote a remarkable and exquisitely detailed
description of the Mass, which clearly corresponds with today's Mass.
In it we find this beautiful statement on the family of God which we
all belong to, and which even today we pray for in every Mass:
"...upon completion of the spiritual Sacrifice, the bloodless worship,
over that propitiatory victim, we call upon God for the common peace
of the Churches, for the welfare of the world, for kings, for soldiers
and allies, for the sick, for the afflicted, and in summary, we all
pray and offer this Sacrifice for all who are in need. Then we make
mention also of those who have already fallen asleep: first, the
patriarchs, prophets, Apostles, and martyrs, that through their
prayers and supplications God would receive our petition; next, we
make mention also of the holy fathers and bishops who have already
fallen asleep, and, to put it simply, of all among us who have already
fallen asleep; for we believe that it will be of very great benefit to
the souls of those for whom the petition is carried up, while this
holy and most solemn Sacrifice is laid out"
--
Jesse Gomez Jr
In Beautiful Norway
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