Mystical Body of Christ
On the Mystical Body of Christ
A Term Paper.
Presented to
Mr. Diosdado Almine
San Beda College – Alabang
In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirement of the subject
Theology 102: Church and Ecumenism.
Second Semester
Academic Year 2012 - 2013
by
Erik Chavez
BAIST - IA
Introduction
Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, on the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ. It is one of the more important encyclicals of Pope Pius XII, because of its topic, the Church, and because its Church concept was fully included in Lumen Gentium but also strongly debated during and after Vatican II. The Church is called body, because it is a living entity; it is called the body of Christ, because Christ is its Head and Founder; it is called mystical body, because it is neither a purely physical nor a purely spiritual unity, but supernatural.
Pope Pius XII issued the Mystici Corporis Christi on June 29, 1943. The first and the most fundamental contribution it made to Catholic thought on the Church is contained in the following sentence: If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ — which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church — we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression "the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ" — an expression which springs from and is, as it were, the fair flowering of the repeated teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and the holy Fathers.
Body What is the primary purpose of the document? The purpose of the document is to throw an added ray of glory on the supreme beauty of the Church; to bring out into fuller light the exalted supernatural nobility of the faithful who in the Body of Christ are united with their Hear; and finally, to exclude definitely the many current errors with regard to this matter. And if at times there appears in the Church something that indicates the weakness of our human nature, it
A Term Paper.
Presented to
Mr. Diosdado Almine
San Beda College – Alabang
In Partial Fulfillment for the Requirement of the subject
Theology 102: Church and Ecumenism.
Second Semester
Academic Year 2012 - 2013
by
Erik Chavez
BAIST - IA
Introduction
Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, on the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ. It is one of the more important encyclicals of Pope Pius XII, because of its topic, the Church, and because its Church concept was fully included in Lumen Gentium but also strongly debated during and after Vatican II. The Church is called body, because it is a living entity; it is called the body of Christ, because Christ is its Head and Founder; it is called mystical body, because it is neither a purely physical nor a purely spiritual unity, but supernatural.
Pope Pius XII issued the Mystici Corporis Christi on June 29, 1943. The first and the most fundamental contribution it made to Catholic thought on the Church is contained in the following sentence: If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ — which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church — we shall find nothing more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the expression "the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ" — an expression which springs from and is, as it were, the fair flowering of the repeated teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and the holy Fathers.
Body What is the primary purpose of the document? The purpose of the document is to throw an added ray of glory on the supreme beauty of the Church; to bring out into fuller light the exalted supernatural nobility of the faithful who in the Body of Christ are united with their Hear; and finally, to exclude definitely the many current errors with regard to this matter. And if at times there appears in the Church something that indicates the weakness of our human nature, it