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752 In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly, ¹⁴¹ but also the local community ¹⁴² or the whole universal community of believers. ¹⁴³ These three meanings are inseparable. "The Church" is the People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical, above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life from the word and the Body of Christ and so herself becomes Christ's Body.

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PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

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ARTICLE 9: "I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH"

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Paragraph 1. The Church in God's Plan

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141 Cf. I Cor 11:18; 14:19, 28, 34, 35.

142 Cf. I Cor 1:2; 16:1.

143 Cf. I Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13; Phil 3:6.

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