Pills of Faith January 26 "Timothy and Titus spread the faith of the Apostles in the world"

The Church is called Catholic (or universal) because it exists in the whole world, from one end of the earth to the other, and because it teaches universally and without error every doctrine that men must know about visible and invisible, celestial and earthly realities . It is also called Catholic because it leads the whole human race to true religion, leaders and subjects, wise and ignorant, because it cures and heals all sorts of sin, committed with the soul or with the body, and finally because it possesses in itself all virtues, in words and deeds, of any kind, and all spiritual gifts.

This name "Church" - which means assembly - is particularly accurate because it summons and brings together all men, as the Lord orders in Leviticus: "Convene the whole community at the entrance of the tent of the conference" (Lev 8,3: 4,10) ... And in Deuteronomy God says to Moses: "Gather the people to me and I will make them hear my words" (35,18:XNUMX) ... And again the psalmist says: "I will praise you in the great assembly, I will celebrate you in the midst of a large people" ( XNUMX) ...

Later the Savior established a second assembly, with the nations that were formerly pagan: our holy Church, that of the Christians, for which he said to Peter: “And on this stone I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it "(Mt 16,18:149,1) ... While the first assembly that was in Judea was destroyed, the Churches of Christ multiplied all over the earth. The psalms speak of them when they say: “Sing a new song to the Lord; his praise in the assembly of the faithful "(1) ... It is from this same holy and catholic Church that Paul writes to Timothy:" I want you to know how to behave in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, column and support of the truth ”(3,15Tm XNUMX).