One Body, One Spirit

The Body of Christ is one despite that it has many members.  Each member contributes to  help build up the Body of Christ.  When one member sins, all members suffer from this one sin because all are one family and one with each other.  Just as one member of the family is hurt, so all members of the family also feel the pain.  All members of Christ's body is also one with our Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church.  One cannot separate Christ's body from His head.      

This is how I see the Body of Christ.  The Neocatechumenal Way is the feet because they go on missions evangelizing around the world.  The Charismatic Catholics is the mouth because they love to sing.  I must admit, I'm impressed with the Charismatic Catholics.  They also have charisms.  The Traditional Catholics are the eyes because they need to see.  

Thus, there are many different members in one Body.  All Catholics in the Body of Christ need one another.  The eye cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you", nor can the feet say to the mouth, "you are not important."  All are important and help one another.  The members of the Body of Christ need the Holy Spirit.  Without the Spirit, the feet becomes lame and cannot walk to evangelize.  Without the Spirit, the mouth becomes mute and cannot sing nor speak the word of God.  Without the Spirit, the eyes becomes blind and can only see the letter of the law. 

All Catholics are the Body of Christ and one family despite our different and various abilities.  When the Apostle Paul persecuted Christians, he later understood that he was also persecuting Christ.  Christ and His Church are one just as husband and wife are one.  Any persecution on His Spouse, the Church, is also a persecution on Christ.    

Acts 9:4  And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?   

And so, one must be careful that one does not do what St. Paul did BEFORE his conversion....persecuting the Church, the Body of Christ.  

Acts 22:3-5  "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city.  I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors.  I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.  I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify.  I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem.