The parish is the Church that lives among men's houses: it is the Church that makes a home among men's houses.
(Christi fideles laici, 26)
It is the Church, the community of Jesus' disciples living in a territory in the communion of priests and families.
In the Catholic Church, the parish is the Church that lives among the homes, that is, it is the community of Jesus' disciples where they live and where they are recognisable as Christians, those who belong to Christ Jesus and gather together to share the Word, the Eucharist, and charity.
It is a community of faith and an organic community, receiving the hierarchical and charismatic gifts of the Lord. It meets together to celebrate the day of the Lord's Resurrection, Sunday, particularly in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and allow itself to be regenerated in Him.
It is community of communities because Jesus himself with his life gave an indication of method that we cannot leave aside: he chose and constituted for himself a community of life on a human scale, twelve disciples. This is the form of Christian life, a sharing of faith and life in communities on a human scale, intimately open in the one great community of those who follow Christ Jesus, his Church.
La Chiesa vive nelle case. Ogni battezzato che intende vivere la vita in Cristo Gesù è stato immerso nella sua passione, morte e risurrezione, tanto che San Paolo può dire: «non vivo più io, ma Cristo vive in me» (Gal 2, 20). Gesù stesso ha detto: «dove sono due o tre riuniti nel mio nome, lì sono io in mezzo a loro» (Mt 18, 20). E ancora, nel sacramento delle Nozze, l’amore fedele, anche se fragile, di quell’uomo e quella donna è sacramento dell’amore di Cristo sposo per la sua Chiesa sposa, sacramento che edifica la Chiesa.
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