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To: metmom
You are editing the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Please post the entire section.

795 Christ and his Church thus together make up the "whole Christ" (Christus totus). The Church is one with Christ. The saints are acutely aware of this unity:

Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself. Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God's grace toward us? Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ. For if he is the head, we are the members; he and we together are the whole man. . . . The fullness of Christ then is the head and the members. But what does "head and members" mean? Christ and the Church.

Our redeemer has shown himself to be one person with the holy Church whom he has taken to himself.

Head and members form as it were one and the same mystical person.

A reply of St. Joan of Arc to her judges sums up the faith of the holy doctors and the good sense of the believer: "About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter."


53 posted on 12/05/2014 6:58:59 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself.

Yes, that is essentially what the other poster said:

The Catholic Church is Christ

Thank you for confirming that is indeed RCC doctrine.
54 posted on 12/05/2014 7:07:42 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Salvation

It doesn’t help your case......


56 posted on 12/05/2014 7:11:48 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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