Spirit of Truth, High School > Course V > Unit 1
Chapter 2: The Church and the Sacramental Economy of Salvation
The Church is a sacrament, a sign and instrument of Jesus’ continued presence and activity in the world.
The Church is a sacrament, a sign and instrument of Jesus’ continued presence and activity in the world.
The Eucharist is our daily bread, sustaining our spiritual life.
The Church is the Body of Christ: a complex spiritual and physical reality that makes Jesus visible to the world in and through her many members, who each build up the Church by their unique gifts and talents.
The Church is a pilgrim people, making her way through history, enduring hardship and persecution, and journeying toward salvation and communion with her faithful Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.
The Church has both a divine and human dimension.
The authority, doctrine, and liturgies possessed and taught by the Apostles have been handed on to every age through Scripture and Tradition.
The divine mission of the Church is to bring salvation to humanity.
The three offices, or functions, of the Church are teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
After constant war, plague, and famine, the Middle Ages closed a tumultuous chapter in world history with a hopeful outlook toward the future.