relations between bride and bridegroom, taken in their ever-
lasting fullness, consist of a perfect unity of life, a unity which
preserves the reality of their difference: it is a union of two
in one, which is not dissolved by duality nor absorbed by
unity. The Church, although it is the Body of Christ, is not
the Christ--the God-Man--because it is only His humanity;
but it is life in Christ, and with Christ, the life of Christ in
us; "it is no longer I who live, but Christ Who liveth in
me" ( Gal. ii. 20). But Christ is not only a Divine Person.
Since His own life is inseparable from that of the Holy Trinity,
His life is consubstantial with that of the Father and the Holy
Spirit. Thus it is that, although a life in Christ, the Church
is also a life in the Holy Trinity. The body of Christ lives
in Christ, and by that very fact in the Holy Trinity. Christ
is the Son. In Him we learn to know the Father, we are
adopted by God, to Whom we cry "Our Father."

The love of God, the love of the Father for the Son and
that of the Son for the Father, is not a simple quality or rela-
tion; it possesses itself a personal life, it is hypostatic. The
love of God is the Holy Spirit, which proceeds from the
Father to the Son, abiding upon Him. The Son exists for
the Father only in the Holy Spirit which rests on Him; as
the Father manifests his love for the Son by the Holy Spirit,
which is the unity of life of Father and Son. And the Spirit
itself, being the love of two persons, in keeping with the
very nature of love lives, so to speak, in Its personal existence
outside Itself in the Father and the Son. This is love: living,
It dies, and dying, It lives. In the moment when It seems
to efface itself, It exercises the greatest force. This is the
place of the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity.

The Church, in her quality of Body of Christ, which lives
with the life of Christ, is by that fact the domain where
the Holy Spirit lives and works. More: the Church is
life by the Holy Spirit, because it is the Body of Christ.
This is why the Church may be considered as a blessed

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