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lemonrock 68M
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6/16/2007 3:40 am

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The Soul of the Church
The Soul of the Church

The apostle Paul describes the effect the Holy Spirit has on the body of the Church it creates a variety of functions which harmoniously contribute to the overall good of the ecclesial organism. That is why the Holy Spirit has traditionally been considered the soul of the Church. Like the soul of a human being, the Holy Spirit cannot be seen, measured, weighed, or imagined. But it can be understood as doing in the Church what the human soul does in the human body. It is the prime inward principle of all life and unity in Christ’s body. This comparison between the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church and the role of the human soul in the body goes back to St. Augustine. After a relative eclipse during the Middles Ages, this traditional comparison has resurfaced in the Church’s documents, especially in the 1943 encyclical of Pius XII on the Mystical Body.


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