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The book traces patristic and medieval uses of the Latin phrase corpus mysticum ("mystical body"). In de Lubac's time, especially as evidenced in Pope Pius XII 's 1943 encyclical Mystici corporis Christi , this phrase was typically used to refer to the Church as the "mystical body" of Christ.
The encyclical is remembered for its statement that the Mystical Body of Christ is the Catholic Church. According to Mystici corporis, to be truly a member of the mystical body, one must be a member of the Catholic Church. Non-Catholics who erred in good faith could be unsuspectingly united to the mystical body by an unconscious desire and ...
The Institution of the Eucharist by Nicolas Poussin, 1640. In Christian theology, the term Body of Christ (Latin: Corpus Christi) has two main but separate meanings: it may refer to Jesus Christ's words over the bread at the celebration of the Jewish feast of Passover that "This is my body" in Luke 22:19–20 (see Last Supper), or it may refer to all individuals who are "in Christ" (1 ...
For the reason why, in addition to the expressions of Christ and St. Paul (the bread in the Supper is the body of Christ or the communion of the body of Christ), also the forms: under the bread, with the bread, in the bread [the body of Christ is present and offered], are employed, is that by means of them the papistical transubstantiation may ...
In the celebration of the Eucharist, Jesus Christ shows us how the truth of love can transform even the dark mystery of death into the radiant light of the resurrection. Through the Eucharist, He becomes all in all, present in his totality within the members of the Church (par #36). The individual members make up the spiritual stones of the Church.
Holy Body is a phrase usually referring to the Body of Christ or the Feast of Corpus Christi. It may also refer to: Chapel of the Holy Body: a Roman Catholic church in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Corp Naomh: a 10th-century Irish reliquary depicting the Body of Christ; Holy Body Tattoo: a contemporary dance troupe in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (28 August 1919 [1] – 12 December 1994 [2]) (Arabic: جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was an Iraqi-Palestinian author, artist and intellectual born in Adana in French-occupied Cilicia to a Syriac Orthodox Christian family. [3]
The Social Rights of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ, the King. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1932. Philippe, Auguste, and Denis Fahey. The Social Rights of Our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, the King; Adapted from the French of the Rev. A. Philippe, C. SS. R. Dublin [etc.]: Browne and Nolan, 1932. Fahey, Denis. The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern ...