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The fourth stanza finally addresses the present congregation to join together in praise. So, this hymn addresses the traditional Three States of the Church (the Church Triumphant, the Church Expectant, the Church Militant), reflecting the belief in the communion of saints. [4] The original text follows: [2] Ye watchers and ye holy ones,
Revelation 5:8 presents the saints in Heaven as linked by prayer with their fellow Christians on earth. The communion of saints (Latin: commūniō sānctōrum, Ancient Greek: κοινωνίᾱ τῶν Ἁγῐ́ων, romanized: koinōníā tôn Hagíōn), when referred to persons, is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, but excluding the damned. [1]
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Communion has been described as the 'fount and apex of the whole Christian life.' Geoffrey Clements/Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesThe biannual U.S. Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its ...
The Church of England, mother church of the Anglican Communion, teaches with regard to spiritual communion that "Believers who cannot physically receive the sacrament are to be assured that they are partakers by faith of the Body and Blood of Christ and of the benefits he conveys to us by them." [9]
Rev. Emmanuel Sanchez is an associate pastor at Resurrection Catholic Church, part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He sometimes thinks of All Saints Day as a “triduum on the other side of the ...
The treasury of merit or treasury of the Church (thesaurus ecclesiae; Greek: θησαυρός, thesaurós, treasure; Greek: ἐκκλησία, ekklēsía‚ convening, congregation, parish) consists, according to Catholic belief, of the merits of Jesus Christ and his faithful, a treasury that because of the communion of saints benefits others, too. [1]
Although it is argued that in the early church the norm was communion of all Christians present at Mass, [2] before the Twentieth Century communion among the Catholic laity tended to be quite infrequent, sometimes only once a year. This was partly informed by the Jansenist fear that frequent communion would erode the faith. [3]