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Satis Cognitum Quotes
Satis Cognitum: On the Unity of the Church
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Pope Leo XIII19 ratings, 4.42 average rating, 1 review
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“The Church is not something dead: it is the body of Christ endowed with supernatural life. As Christ, the Head and Exemplar, is not wholly in His visible human nature, which Photinians and Nestorians assert, nor wholly in the invisible divine nature, as the Monophysites hold, but is one, from and in both natures, visible and invisible; so the mystical body of Christ is the true Church, only because its visible parts draw
life and power from the supernatural gifts and other things whence spring their very nature and essence. But since the
Church is such by divine will and constitution, such it must uniformly remain to the end of time. If it did nor, then it would not have been founded as perpetual, and the end set before it would have been limited to some certain place and to
some certain period of time; both of which are contrary to the truth. The union consequently of visible and invisible
elements because it harmonizes with the natural order and by God's will belongs to the very essence of the Church, must
necessarily remain so long as the Church itself shall endure.”
― Satis Cognitum: On the Unity of the Church
life and power from the supernatural gifts and other things whence spring their very nature and essence. But since the
Church is such by divine will and constitution, such it must uniformly remain to the end of time. If it did nor, then it would not have been founded as perpetual, and the end set before it would have been limited to some certain place and to
some certain period of time; both of which are contrary to the truth. The union consequently of visible and invisible
elements because it harmonizes with the natural order and by God's will belongs to the very essence of the Church, must
necessarily remain so long as the Church itself shall endure.”
― Satis Cognitum: On the Unity of the Church
