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The Church is not just a building but rather a family where one believer shares the same bond and answer the same calling.
The Church is also a great army where "soldiers" enter by baptism.
The Church is an universal assembly made up of diverse people, tribe, etc.
The bond of the believers create a kind of richness that is unique and cannot be fully explored by human.
The Church is life that is passed on.

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Oikouemene: accepts no frontier to check her expansion, not even the physical and visible world

Definition of Church According to St. Thomas Aquinas (cont.): the Church is a gigantic organism including
·             Angels

·             Humans

·             Cosmos

·             Etc

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The church is described as:
* The army that marches on the road to salvation.

*Universal Assembly
*Made up of people from every tribe and nation
*Well defined power
*Institution that endures
*A life that is passed on
*Sets the seal of unity on all the children of God whom She gathers together.

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The author of Martyrdom of Polycarp, Ignatius, says that Christ is "the Shepard of the universal Church throughout the earth." St. Thomas Aquinas defines the Church as Ecclesia catholica, id est universalis, meaning "the Catholic Church which is universal." He further explains how the church "embraces the whole of humanity."

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The Church is divided into three groups that are in ceaseless intercommunication. The three groups or dimensions are the Church Militant which is the pilgrim Church on earth, the Church Suffering which is the Church is Purgatory, and the Church Triumphant which is the Church in Heaven and it is not complete until the coming of her Savior.

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1) 3 words to define the church
--Sanctan Ecclesian Catholican -Perfect community of all those who unite themselves to Christ as their savior and are united to God by Him

--Una Fidelium Universalis ecclesia - the faithful  people that make up the universal church

--Ecclesia Catholica id est Universalis - universal church throughout the earth and universe