Tuesday, 11/5/13
In today’s passage from his Letter to the Romans Paul wrote,
“We, though many, are one body in Christ and individually parts of one
another.”
When Jesus physically departed from us, he provided for his
ongoing stay in this world by deputizing us to take his place. We are called
his Mystical Body, and we are meant to carry on all his work among mankind.
Jesus stays on healing through us, teaching through us, offering sympathy and
solace through us.
Just as it is the one spirit inhabiting our body that moves
you to doing what is right and good, so it is the Holy Spirit, who can be seen
as the Soul of the Mystical Body of Christ.
Just as there is no rivalry between your right hand and your
left, so you are happy about the good accomplished by others, never giving way
to jealousy.
In 1977 Cardinal Avery Dulles gave us a wonderful book he
titled Models of the Church. In it he pointed out how Jesus spoke of
himself as performing five different roles: he called himself our teacher, our friend, our
servant, our shepherd, and our way to the Father. Avery pointed out that by our, being led by the Spirit, serve as teachers, nurses, social workers, leaders, and priests we duplicate
Our Lord’s roles, we keep him alive and active for mankind.
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