The Church is at the same time an earthly community and the mystical body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual mystery, a reality present in history and a people journeying towards heaven (…) An ideal and pure Church, separated from the earth, does not exist; only the one Church of Christ, embodied in history.(…) This is what constitutes the holiness of the Church: the fact that Christ dwells in her and continues to give himself through the smallness and fragility of her members. Contemplating this perennial miracle that takes place in her, we understand ‘God’s method’: He makes himself visible through the weakness of creatures, continuing to manifest himself and to act.
Second Vatican Council: the guiding star of the Church
Invitation to follow Leo XIV’s Catechesis every Wednesday
