Abstract
The Church is the extension of the resurrected body of the Son of God in history and in the believers as totality, believers that through baptism and chrismation become her living and active members. The relationship between the sacramental priesthood and the Church can only take place in perfect unity, the Church being absolutely necessary for salvation. Without the historical Church of Christ, namely the laboratory where salvation is being accomplished, humanity would remain subjected to sin and death, unable to know the perfection for which it has been created. Only by getting closer to Christ through the visible hand of the sacramental priesthood in the Church through the Holy Sacraments, the relationship between the Divine and humans acquires a different meaning, and humanity receives a meaning that goes beyond the materiality of the world.
Highlights
The church is the vessel that leads to salvation
The Holy Ghost is permanently working in the ecclesial environment through the grace of the Holy Sacraments that are administered by the sacramental priesthood
The role of the sacramental priesthood is to preach the word of God, to sanctify the faithful, and to lead them to salvation (John XX, 21-23; Matthew XXVIII, 18-20; Mark XVI, 15-16) by having this empowerment, not taken on their own behalf, but from Christ through the Holy Spirit precisely through as He receives the candidate for the great mystery of ordination
Summary
The church is the vessel that leads to salvation. She is the body of Christ, and the totality of her members from all times and from all places represent the members of this body, the members that work as a whole for the wellbeing of the entire body, and for the individual salvation that is obtained in the Church. Faced with the physical impossibility of baptism in all places and times, the Holy Apostles shared the grace of the priesthood with people chosen from among those who were already baptized, so from the universal priesthood, and made them visible organs through which Christ Himself works in His Church (Acts II, 42; VII, 16-17).
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