Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 121 - Part III.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The Greek word for Church is “ekklesia” those who are called
forth. All of us who are baptized and believe in God are called forth by the
Lord. Together we are the Church. Christ is, as Paul says, the Head of the
Church. We are his body.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 752)
In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical
assembly (Cf. 1 Cor 11:18; 14:19, 28, 34, 35), but also the local community
(Cf. 1 Cor 1:2; 16:1) or the whole universal community of believers (Cf. 1 Cor
15:9; Gal 1:13; Phil 3:6). These three meanings are inseparable. "The
Church" is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in
local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic,
assembly. She draws her life from the word and the Body of Christ and so
herself becomes Christ's Body.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
When we receive the
sacraments and hear God’s Word, Christ is in us and we are in him—that is the Church. The
intimate communion of life with Jesus that is shared personally by all the
baptized is described in Sacred Scripture by a wealth of images: Here it speaks
about the People of God and in another passage about the Bride of Christ; now
the Church is called Mother, and again she is God’s family, or she is compared
with a wedding feast. Never is the Church a mere institution, never just the
“official Church” that we could do without. We will be upset by the mistakes
and defects in the Church, but we can
never distance ourselves from her, because God has made an irrevocable decision
to love her and does not forsake her despite all the sins of her members. The
Church is God’s presence among us men. That is why we must love her.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 753)
In Scripture, we find a host of interrelated images and figures through which
Revelation speaks of the inexhaustible mystery of the Church. The images taken
from the Old Testament are variations on a profound theme: the People of God.
In the New Testament, all these images find a new center because Christ has
become the head of this people, which henceforth is his Body (Cf. Eph 1:22; Col
1:18; LG 9). Around this center are grouped images taken "from the life of
the shepherd or from cultivation of the land, from the art of building or from
family life and marriage" (LG 6).
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