The universal Church is One. Although the full revelation of God was in Jesus Christ, the human mind cannot fully comprehend God. How can human finite mind fully understand the infinity of God? It is not possible. "God is spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth." - John 4:24 - It is the Lord Jesus Christ who, through the Holy Spirit makes His universal Church One, an emphasis on that which makes the "truine God" essentially One.

Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is One Body, One Spirit, just as you were all called into One and the same hope when you were called. The one Lord, One faith, One baptism, and one God who is Father of all, over all, through all and within all. - Eph. 4:2-6 -

In his body lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfillment, in the One who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power. - Col. 2:9 -

In the light of the grace I have received I want to urge each one among you not to exaggerate his real importance. Each of you must judge himself soberly by the standard of the faith God has given him. Just as each of our bodies has several parts and each part has a separate function, so all of us, in union with Christ, form One body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. - Rom. 12:3-5 -

A man may imagine he understands something, but still not understand anything in the way that he ought to. But any man who loves God is known by him. Well, then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that idols do not really exist in the world and that there is no god but the One. And even if there were things called gods, either in the sky or on earth - where there certainly seem to be 'gods' and 'lords' in plenty - still for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things come and for whom we exist; and there is one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things come and through whom we exist. - 1 Cor. 8:2-6 -

There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people. it is the same God who is working in all of them. The particular way in which the Spirit is given to each person........ All these are the work of the One and the same Spirit, who distributes different gifts to different people just as he chooses. - 1 Cor. 12:4-11 -

May they all be One.
Father, may they be One in us,
as you are in me and I am in you,
so that the world may believe it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory you gave to me,
that they may be One as we are One.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so completely One. - John 17:21-23 -

The universal Church is One because of her source: "the highest exemplar and source of this mystery is the unity, in the Trinity of Persons, of one God, the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. The universal Church is One because of her founder: for "the Word made flesh, the prince of peace, reconciled all men to God by the cross,... restoring the unity of all in One people and One body. The universal Church is One because of her "soul." "It is the Holy Spirit, dwelling in those who believe and pervading and ruling over the entire universal Church, who brings about that wonderful communion of the faithful and joins them together so intimately in Christ that He is the principle of the universal Church's unity. Unity is of the essence of the universal Church. - CCC 813 -

It is the Lord Jesus Christ who, through the Holy Spirit, makes the universal Church One.

The Lord Jesus Christ bestowed unity on His one universal Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the One universal Church as something the Church can never lose, and the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it, and it will continue to increase until the end of time, as promised by the Lord Jesus Christ. "And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time." - Matt. 28:20 - The Lord Jesus Christ always gives His universal Church the gift of unity, and the reconciliation of all Christians in the unity of the One universal Church that transcends human powers and gifts that we place our faith, hope, love of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -