The Year of St. Paul

"As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free person, and we were allgiven to drink of one Spirit"

(I Corinthians 12: 12-13).

Once we have been instructed by God’s revelation in Jesus Christ that Christians are incorporated into the Body of Christ, it becomes easier to see that our individual lives on this earth are directed to the common good.

The Mystical Body of Christ is a much more profound reality than any
earthly community. Through the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist the
members of Christ are in reality connected as one body. The doctrine of
the common good teaches us that the goal of our individual lives is the
good of the larger community in which we live. But the Body of Christ
extends through all time and space so that we are joined with the saints
of biblical and later times. What is foreshadowed in the common good is fulfilled in the reality of the body of Christ.

So those of us who are Christians, let us recognize that we are one body
and continue to give ourselves to the care of other members of the
body. Let us share our material goods with those who are in need. And let us call others into the one body of Christ, and teach those who are only potentially members of the body of Christ that they are already connected to another through the common good.

The Common Good and the Body of Christ, Michael A. Dauphinais, Jr

Resources for the Pauline Year

The Papal Bascilica, St Paul, Outside the Walls

USCCB, Resources for the Year of St. Paul

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted's Letter, Year of St. Paul

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