tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post398694948744740634..comments2024-01-17T03:08:25.317-06:00Comments on The Progressive Catholic Voice: "We, Together, Are the Church": A Response to Archbishop NienstedtPCV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-46288894323926898002011-09-16T18:41:52.999-05:002011-09-16T18:41:52.999-05:00Lumen Gentium, the SV Council's document on th...Lumen Gentium, the SV Council's document on the Church, states that <br /> <br />"Christ, the one Mediator, established and continually sustains here on earth His holy Church, the community of faith, hope and charity, as an entity with visible delineation (9*) through which He communicated truth and grace to all. But, the society structured with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, are not to be considered as two realities, nor are the visible assembly and the spiritual community, nor the earthly Church and the Church enriched with heavenly things; rather they form one complex reality which coalesces from a divine and a human element.(10*) For this reason, by no weak analogy, it is compared to the mystery of the incarnate Word. As the assumed nature inseparably united to Him, serves the divine Word as a living organ of salvation, so, in a similar way, does the visible social structure of the Church serve the Spirit of Christ, who vivifies it, in the building up of the body.(73) (11*)"<br /><br />This same document, the document that speaks of the universal call to holiness, the importance of all the Faithful, and the nature of Church as "People of God," states that<br /><br />"Every legitimate celebration of the Eucharist is regulated by the bishop, to whom is committed the office of offering the worship of Christian religion to the Divine Majesty and of administering it in accordance with the Lord's commandments and the Church's laws, as further defined by his particular judgment for his diocese."<br /><br /><br />The writers of this incendiary document must not have gotten the memo about the "Spirit of the Council".....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com