The Church is an object of faith. In the Apostles' Creed we pray:
"I believe in God, the Father ... in Jesus Christ, his only Son - in the
Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the
forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life
everlasting." We must believe in the Church! The Apostles' Creed does
not say that the Church is an organization that helps us to believe in
God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. No, we are called to believe in the
Church with the same faith we believe in God.
Often it seems harder to believe in the Church than to believe in
God. But whenever we separate our belief in God from our belief in the
Church, we become unbelievers. God has given us the Church as the place
where God becomes God-with-us.
Henri Nouwen
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