Paragraph 3. THE CHURCH IS ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC
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The Church is ultimately one, holy, catholic, and apostolic in her deepest and
ultimate identity, because it is in her that “the Kingdom of heaven,”
the “Reign of God,”380 already exists and will be fulfilled
at the end of time. the kingdom has come in the person of Christ and grows
mysteriously in the hearts of those incorporated into him, until its full
eschatological manifestation. Then all those he has redeemed and made
“holy and blameless before him in love,”381 will be gathered
together as the one People of God, the
“Bride of the Lamb,”382 “the holy city Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.”383 For
“the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”384
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Article 9 “I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH”
- Paragraph 3. THE CHURCH IS ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC
- Article 9 “I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH”
- CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM