194. To the same degree IS THE Intent OF THE "COMMUNION OF SAINTS"? (Qualities 1)
(Comp 194) This expression indicates before time of all the common sharing of all the members of the Church in holy equipment (sancta): the encouragement, the sacraments, expressly the Eucharist, the charisms, and the other spiritual gifts. At the underpinning of this communion is love which "does not seek its own interests" (1 Corinthians 13:5) but leads the proper to "include everything in common" (Acts 4:32), even to put one's own real harvest at the service of the utmost defective.
"In brief"
(CCC 960) The Church is a "communion of saints": this expression refers before time to the "holy equipment" ("sancta"), over all the Eucharist, by which "the unity of believers, who form one corpse in Christ, is what's more represented and brought about" (LG 3).
To exaggerate and understand
(CCC 946) Behindhand confessing "the holy catholic Church," the Apostles' Faith adds "the communion of saints." In a precise plan this matter is a raise observe of the preceding: "To the same degree is the Church if not the house of all the saints?" (Nicetas, "Expl. Symb"., 10: PL 52:871B). The communion of saints is the Church. (CCC 947) "Since all the proper form one corpse, the good of each is communicated to the others.... We condition in this manner supposing that offer exists a communion of harvest in the Church. But the utmost highest partner is Christ, the same as he is the control.... So, the prosperity of Christ are communicated to all the members, express the sacraments." (St. Thomas Aquinas, "Symb"., 10). "As this Church is governed by one and the extremely Spirit, all the harvest she has acknowledged necessarily become a common sell" ("Roman Catechism" I, 10, 24).
On philosophy
(CCC 948) The request "communion of saints" in this manner has two conscientiously partnered meanings: communion in holy equipment ("sancta")" and "in the course of holy inhabit ("sancti"). "Sancta sancti's!" ("God's holy gifts for God's holy empire") is proclaimed by the celebrant in utmost Eastern liturgies all through the facade of the holy Help to the lead the partition of communion. The proper ("sancti") are fed by Christ's holy corpse and blood ("sancta") to sheep farm in the communion of the Blessed Spirit ("koinonia") and to hit it off it to the world. (CCC 949) In the animal community of Jerusalem, the disciples "stalwart themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the drifting apart of the bread and the prayers" (Acts 2:42). "Communion in the encouragement". The encouragement of the proper is the encouragement of the Church, acknowledged from the apostles. Desire is a treasure of life which is enriched by because shared. [IT CONTINUES]
(THE QUESTION: "To the same degree IS THE Intent OF THE "COMMUNION OF SAINTS"?" CONTINUES)
