815. What are these bonds of unity? Above all, charity “binds everything together in perfect harmony.”265But the unity of the pilgrim Church is also assured by visible bonds of communion:
– profession of one faith received from the Apostles;
-common celebration of divine worship, especially of the sacraments;
– apostolic succession through the sacrament of Holy Orders, maintaining the fraternal concord of God’s family.266
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69. How do the soul and body form a unity in the human being?
162. Where does the one Church of Christ subsist?
159. Why is the Church called the temple of the Holy Spirit?
389. What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
440. Why does the Decalogue enjoin serious obligations?
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