The Indians of Mississippi: The Social Services of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity Among the Choctaw of Tucker, Mississippi and Its Missions, 1931-1955
Abstract
Background of the Study. The Catholic Church dates the beginning of her life from that moment when the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Love, descended upon the Apostles who were gathered together in the Cenacle on the first Pentecost Sunday. On that marvelous day, a unique and vigorous supernatural life commenced to animate the Hody of the Church, intimately binding together its members. The Church is thus termed Christ's mystical body, and the soul of this Body is the holy Ghost. This same supernatural life infused into the soul of a Catholic at baptism renders him a living member of this Body, 1 the Church, of which Christ is the Head.St. Paul, using this analogy, says, "The body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body; so also is Christ." He continues that Christ is wedded to the church, all of whose flock are at one and the same time members of the mystical Body of Christ, just as a hand or an eye or an arm is part of a physical body. Although there are many members, he reiterates that there is only one body and an interdependence in the body among all the members. "And if one member suffer anything, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it."
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Biblical studies|Spirituality
Recommended Citation
Lieber, Jacinta, "The Indians of Mississippi: The Social Services of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity Among the Choctaw of Tucker, Mississippi and Its Missions, 1931-1955" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050511.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050511
