Catechism Paragraph 752
Part 1:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
Section 2: THE CREEDS
Chapter 3: I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 9: "I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH"
Section 2: THE CREEDS
Chapter 3: I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 9: "I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH"
In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly,[141] but also the local community[142] or the whole universal community of believers.[143] These three meanings are inseparable. "The Church" is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life from the word and the Body of Christ and so herself becomes Christ's Body.
š Footnotes
[141]
Cf.1 Cor 11:18; 14:19, 28, 34, 35.
[142]
Cf. 1 Cor 1:2; 16:1.
[143]
Cf. 1 Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13; Phil 3:6.