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The Word of God Print E-mail

"All baptised in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galations 3: 28)

"You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to sing the praises of God who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light." (1 Peter 2: 9)

 
The People of God Print E-mail

The Church is the People of God (Lumen Gentium)

 "All the faithful, that is, who by Baptsim, are incorporated into Christ, are constituted the people of God, who have been made sharers in their own way in the priestly, prophetic and kingly office of Christ and play their part in carrying out the mission of the whole christian people in the church and in the world." (Lumen Gentium §31)
 
The Kingdom of God comes about when Print E-mail
  • God rules in our hearts - We accept God's unfailing love for us.
  • We act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with God (Micah)
  • We strive to become "fully alive to the glory of God" (St Ireneus)
  • We elect to serve rather than be served. (Luke 22 v 24-27)
  • We treat others as we would like them to treat us. (Matt 7 v 12)
 
Mission of the Church (People of God) Print E-mail
"The Church, equipped with the gifts of its founder and faithfully observing his precepts of charity, humility and self-denial, receives the mission of proclaiming and establishing among all peoples the kingdom of Christ and of God, as is, on earth, the seed and the beginning of that kingdom." (Lumen Gentium §5)
 
Canonical Doctrine of Reception Print E-mail

Without the means of coercion, laws cannot be imposed on a community that are unwilling to accept them. This is as true for the Church as it is for civil society.

Canonical Doctrine of Reception

originated in the statement of Gratian after canon 3 in Distinction IV of his Decretum (circa 1140).

"Laws are instituted when they are promulgated and they are confirmed when they are approved by the practices of those who use them."

"Valerius Reginaldus (1543-1623) said that when people are given a law which causes them to be unwilling and rebellious there is a presumption that the law is not suitable for that community. He interpreted Gratian's confirming effect of the approving practices of the law's users to mean that the law receives force to bind its subjects by that acceptance."

Read the whole paper by Rev. James Coriden, J.C.D,