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Catechism of the Catholic Church
False. Para. 795: Christ and his Church thus together make up the "whole Christ" (Christus totus). The Church is one with Christ. The saints are acutely aware of this unity: "Let us rejoice then and give thanks that we have become not only Christians, but Christ himself. Do you understand and grasp, brethren, God's grace toward us? Marvel and rejoice: we have become Christ. For if he is the head, we are the members; he and we together are the whole man. . . . The fullness of Christ then is the head and the members. But what does "head and members" mean? Christ and the Church" (St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 21, 8: PL 35, 1568). "Our redeemer has shown himself to be one person with the holy Church whom he has taken to himself" (Pope St. Gregory the Great. Moralia in Job, praef., 14: PL 75, 525A). "Head and members form as it were one and the same mystical person" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 48, 2).
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