Paragraph 2. THE CHURCH – PEOPLE OF GOD, BODY OF CHRIST, TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The People of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from
all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in history:
– It is the People of God: God is not the property of any one people. But he
acquired a people for himself from those who previously were not a people:
“a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.”²⁰²
– One becomes a member of this people not by a physical birth, but by being
“born anew,” a birth “of water and the Spirit,”²⁰³
that is, by faith in Christ, and Baptism.
– This People has for its Head Jesus the Christ (the anointed, the Messiah).
Because the same anointing, the Holy Spirit, flows from the head into the body,
this is “the messianic people.”
– “The status of this people is that of the dignity and freedom of the
sons of God, in whose hearts the Holy Spirit dwells as in a temple.”
– “Its law is the new commandment to love as Christ loved
us.”²⁰⁴ This is the “new” law of the Holy Spirit.²⁰⁵

– Its mission is to be salt of the earth and light of the world.²⁰⁶
This people is “a most sure seed of unity, hope, and salvation for the
whole human race.”
-Its destiny, finally, “is the Kingdom of God which has been begun by God
himself on earth and which must be further extended until it has been brought
to perfection by him at the end of time.”²⁰⁷

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
  - Article 9 “I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH”
    - Paragraph 2. THE CHURCH – PEOPLE OF GOD, BODY OF CHRIST, TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team