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What Is The Church?—IV: The Eucharistic Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In the last article we spoke of the Church as the community of those who have been baptised. It is the new creation consisting of those who have left behind their old out-of-date lives in the waters of baptism and been born again to a new life, a share in the life that Christ brought back from the dead. In this article we shall look at the Church from another point of view. Last time we said that roughly speaking the Church consists of those who have been baptised and have not renounced their faith, this time we start from the rough generalisation that the Church consists of those who go to mass. Last time we found that the formula we started from had a lot more in it than immediately met the eye and we shall find the same in this case, but once more we shall begin with the obvious straightforward meaning and leave the qualifications until later.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1962 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 LIFE OF THE SPIRIT, December, 1961.

2 LIFE OF THE SPIRIT, March, 1961.

3 SLIFE OF THE SPIRIT, June, 1961.