Sunday, May 12 : Saint Peter Damian

The Church is united by a bond of mutual charity so strong that it is one in the plurality of its members and mysteriously whole in each, so much so that, if the entire universal Church is rightly presented as the only and unique Bride of Christ, we also believe that, through the mystery of the sacrament, each soul is the Church in its fullness. One in all and all in each, it is singular in the plurality of her members thanks to the unity of faith, and multiple in each of them thanks to the diversity of charisms joined by the cement mortar of charity, for all come of the One. (…) The secret of this indivisible unity was revealed by the Word when he said to the Father, speaking of his disciples: “It is not for them alone that I pray, but for those also who, thanks to their word, will believe in me. Let all be one. » (Jn 17:20-21) If then those who believe in Christ are one, the whole body is present through the mystery of the sacrament, where the eyes of the flesh see only one member. (…) The necessity of this communion in Christ was considered so certain by our Fathers that they included it in the symbol of the Catholic profession of faith and ordered us to repeat it often among the rudiments of the Christian faith. . For immediately after having said: “I believe in the Holy Spirit, in the Holy Church”, we add: “in the communion of saints”, so that in the very act in which we bear witness to God of our faith, we let us also affirm the communion of the Church, which is one with him. This communion of saints in the unity of faith is such that, believing in one Holy Spirit, they are admitted by the grace of adoption to the one eternal life.
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