The church is like the human person: we are both body and spirit at the one time. The body of Christ—which is what we are—has both a bodily reality (membership, structure and sacraments) and a spiritual reality (the life of faith and prayer, the indwelling Spirit). The institutional and the prophetic dimensions of Church are sometimes in tension and that is really normal. To be part of the living body of Christ is to hear again Jesus’ question, who do you say I am? As St Paul reminds us, no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:3).

Prayer
Christ, Son of the living God, you call us to confess your name and to acknowledge you as Lord. Help us to live our faith and find new words for what we believe so that we may proclaim your Gospel to our contemporaries in words they can understand.

K O’Mahony OSA