I believe in the communion of saints After confessing the holy catholic Church , the Apostles Creed adds the communion of saints. This article is , in a way, a explanation of the above: What is the Church, but the assembly of all the saints ? ( St. Nicetas of Remesiana , competent ad Instructio 5, 3, 23 [ Explanatio Symboli , 10] : PL 52 , 871 ) . The communion of saints is the Church ... The communion of the Church of heaven and earth : The union of the members of the pilgrim Church with the brethren who sleep in the peace of Christ in no way interrupted . Moreover, according to the constant faith of the Church , is reinforced by communication of spiritual goods ( LG 49 ) . the intercession of the saints. By the fact that those in heaven are more closely united to Christ , more firmly consolidated the whole Church in holiness [ ... ] No longer intercede for us before the Father. Presented through the one mediator between God and men , Jesus Christ, the merits which they acquired on earth [ ... ] Your request fraternal help, then, much to our weakness ( LG 49 ) : Do not cry , I shall be more useful after my death and I shall help more effectively than during my life (Santo Domingo, dying , to his brothers : Relatio iuridica 4; cf . Jordan of Saxony , Vita 4 , 69 ) . will spend my heaven doing good on earth ( St. Therese of the Child Jesus ) . The communion of saints ... : Indeed , and union among Christians still pilgrims brings us closer to Christ , so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ , from which flows as source and head, all the grace and the life of the People of God ( LG 50 ) ... in the one family of God. All children of God and members of one family in Christ , to unite in mutual love and in praising the Holy Trinidad , we are responding to the deepest vocation of the Church ( LG 51 ) . In conclusion : The Church is a communion of saints : this expression refers first of the holy things ( sancta ) , and above all the Eucharist , meaning while making the unity of believers , who form one body in Christ ( LG 3). This term also communion between the holy persons ( sancti ) in Christ died for all ( 2 Cor 5:14) , so that what each one does or suffers in and for Christ bears fruit for all
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