Peace be to you.

Thus far in these lessons, we have stressed the idea that the church is the mystical body of Christ.

It is visible in as much as it has members that walk this earth.

It is invisible in as much as Christ as the invisible head, and the life

of it is the Holy Spirit. We also said that this church is a society and assembly, a

kaha'al, related in some way to the assembly and cahal of the Old Testament.

And through this church, God is diffusing the merits of Calvary.

Now we come to a point where we wish to show that Peter holds the primacy, primacy not only

of honor, but also of jurisdiction over the church.

In other words, he is the vicar of Christ, he is the first pontiff, he is the first pope. It is very strange that those who admit

it's with Scripture, that the church is the mystical body of Christ who will not also admit

ahead. After all, how are we to know, for example, that the body

exists in this earth? It's very easy to know that Christ was walking this earth simply because

men saw him. Well, after his ascension, how would men know his mystical body and where his life was to be

found? Our blessed Lord did not leave these questions unanswered. And so he gave a sign that we

would know his body, and the sign was the sign of all living things.

How does any life manifest itself?

Does not the unity of life manifest itself through the head, which is the source of the movements

of the body? The head is the symbol of the movements of the body?

The head is the symbol, is it not, of the unity of life?

Legs and arms can be amputated without destroying the unity of life.

But cut off the head, and it is the end of life.

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