Analysis Of The Church As Sacrament Of Christ

The Church as Sacrament of Christ represents Jesus in the world as the mystical body of Christ. “The Church is essentially human and divine, visible but endowed with invisible realities, zealous in action and dedicated to contemplation, present in the world.” Metaphor literary means to try to compare something with something else. It is used for example, “to indicate that you are not using the ordinary meaning of things, but describing something by means of an image or symbol.” For example, if one says ‘Jesus is my rock’, that is a literal meaning and one has to go beyond it, to interpret for example, that if Jesus is the foundation of your life, you are stable you cannot fall down. It does not mean that Jesus is a physical rock like granite! Here we can ask ourselves how the Sacrament can be used metaphorically in relation to the poor, taking into consideration this verse: “Whatever you did for one of these brothers and
During the Council, they focused on the mystery of the church which connected with the poor. “The two months working together during the first session had at last caused a better understanding of what the church is. To propose to today’s people when they want to know the innermost mystery of the church which is, as it were, the great sacrament of Christ.” The church as the sacrament for the poor tries to help human beings materially and spiritually. The church does not stand for herself but for Christ the great sacrament who enables the church to excise her duties. “The church knew three deep truths of the mystery of Christ in the Church and his presence in the Eucharist. In the history of the Church, both kinds of presence had been thoroughly thought over, whereas the third presence of Christ in the Church must be dealt with more in detail: Christ’s presence in the