Based on the Nicene Creed, I am choosing to discuss the quality “one” of the Catholic Church. The source of the church’s oneness is the Trinity. The Trinity is three persons under one God, just as the church is a great number of people under the image of one God. The most convincing point to me in the CCC was the statement that the church is one because of the Holy Spirit or her “soul.” It was explained by stating that the Holy Spirit’s presence in the souls’ of all the members of the church contribute to oneness. This presence connects all people of the church under one God; this presence is what creates the sense of community of the Catholic Church. This part of the oneness of the church seemed clear to me.
I learned that God’s gifts and those who receive his gifts (his creation) are incredibly diverse but the Holy Spirit unites all souls under God. The diversity of the Catholic Church does not take away from its oneness or unity because each person/item of God’s creation places a special role in the Church and makes her whole. The bonds within the church are made up of love or charity (especially the love of the church by Christ). Salvation can only be gained through the Church when it is united as one body under Christ. Christ died to unify the church, and the church must continue to work and recover this sense of oneness with Jesus. Sin works against the oneness of the Church, but the unity or oneness of the church can never be lost.
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