Of the Five Wounds of the Holy Church Author:Antonio Rosmini Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF THE FIVE WOUNDS OF THE HOLY CHURCH. CHAPTER I. İf tfje 33ounli m tfje Heft ffiantt of tfie folg CDfiurcfi, Iffitclj is Hie Bibfetou kttoccn Uje jJcop... more »le ant) Ujr Clcrgg in public StorgJrip.1 V. The Author of the Gospel is the Maker of Man. Jesus Christ came to save the whole man.2 Man is a being composed of body and spirit. Therefore the law of grace and love must penetrate and possess itself both of man's mind and of his body. It must be so set before the world as to attain this end. It must so combine ideasThe work of the Gospel 1 By " division," I do not mean a separation in communion and in spirit, which can never be wanting in the Church of Jesus Christ ; but only the lack of that practical union which exists between the clergy and people when the latter fully understand the rites and prayers recited and performed by the former in their sacred duties. St. John iii. 2-6. Chap. I. with actions, thus appealing no less to intellect than to feeling, that the whole man, yea, the very dry bones of humanity may be touched by their Creator's will and live through Him. VI. It was not enough that the Gospel should take possession of the individual man. The glad message was destined to save all mankind. Not only was it to act upon the several elements of man's nature; its Divine action was to accompany our nature unfailingly in all its developments, and to support it in all the stages of its history. Thus instead of man's ruin being precipitated by his natural gravitation towards evil, a kindly law of progressive improvement would govern his onward course. In short, the Gospel was to mingle itself with and display itself in single lives, and thence to pass into the communities formed out of them. Having saved the individual man, it was to renew and save every ...« less