![]() ![]() 266Ĩ16 "The sole Church of Christ which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it. . . apostolic succession through the sacrament of Holy Orders, maintaining the fraternal concord of God's family. common celebration of divine worship, especially of the sacraments profession of one faith received from the Apostles And so the Apostle has to exhort Christians to "maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." 264Ĩ15 What are these bonds of unity? Above all, charity "binds everything together in perfect harmony." 265 But the unity of the pilgrim Church is also assured by visible bonds of communion: Yet sin and the burden of its consequences constantly threaten the gift of unity. "Holding a rightful place in the communion of the Church there are also particular Churches that retain their own traditions." 263 The great richness of such diversity is not opposed to the Church's unity. Among the Church's members, there are different gifts, offices, conditions, and ways of life. ![]() Within the unity of the People of God, a multiplicity of peoples and cultures is gathered together. What an astonishing mystery! There is one Father of the universe, one Logos of the universe, and also one Holy Spirit, everywhere one and the same there is also one virgin become mother, and I should like to call her "Church." 262Ĩ14 From the beginning, this one Church has been marked by a great diversity which comes from both the variety of God's gifts and the diversity of those who receive them. restoring the unity of all in one people and one body." 260 The Church is one because of her "soul": "It is the Holy Spirit, dwelling in those who believe and pervading and ruling over the entire Church, who brings about that wonderful communion of the faithful and joins them together so intimately in Christ that he is the principle of the Church's unity." 261 Unity is of the essence of the Church: "The sacred mystery of the Church's unity" (UR 2)Ĩ13 The Church is one because of her source: "the highest exemplar and source of this mystery is the unity, in the Trinity of Persons, of one God, the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit." 259 The Church is one because of her founder: for "the Word made flesh, the prince of peace, reconciled all men to God by the cross. As the First Vatican Council noted, the "Church herself, with her marvelous propagation, eminent holiness, and inexhaustible fruitfulness in everything good, her catholic unity and invincible stability, is a great and perpetual motive of credibility and an irrefutable witness of her divine mission." 258 But their historical manifestations are signs that also speak clearly to human reason. ![]() The Church does not possess them of herself it is Christ who, through the Holy Spirit, makes his Church one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, and it is he who calls her to realize each of these qualities.Ĩ12 Only faith can recognize that the Church possesses these properties from her divine source. The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and ApostolicĨ11 "This is the sole Church of Christ, which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic." 256 These four characteristics, inseparably linked with each other, 257 indicate essential features of the Church and her mission. Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 1 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 3 ARTICLE 9 PARAGRAPH 3 CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ![]()
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