What does BOC stand for?

Learning about the body of Christ at Calvin, Halifax.

This feast has become both sacrament and sacred: the unique time and space in which we receive God as bread, and then joyfully share God with the world as the body of Christ.

One of the holiest relics in Christianity, the Turin Shroud is believed to have swathed the body of Christ after his death.

The theme of the services was taken from 1st Corinthians chapter 12, that we are all part of the body of Christ and all share one Holy Spirit, and that each person is individual and precious to God.

This process is content-rich, a content always at the service of a living and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, within the Body of Christ, the church, for Christ's mission in the world.

He is not so sure-footed when it comes to theology and history: the Host does not become the Body of Christ 'a moment or two before ingestion' but at the Consecration; references to 'a little splinter of Peter in every Pope' and 'metempsychotic or even shamanic transference' presumably refer to apostolic succession; and Mussolini was not Emanuel III's 'head of state', an office retained by the overwhelmed King.

Those of us who have taken part in these study groups have gained a great deal of insight and knowledge, and I think I can speak for most, if not all, when I say that these group meetings have brought us together in such a way that we have been enabled to reassess our view of the universal Church, rather than from the close confines of the parish community, with a greater understanding of what it means to be a part of the "catholic" Church - the universal body of Christ in the world.

of Heidelberg) analyzes the many questions about Laski's theology, which viewed the congregation as the communion of the body of Christ, and its relation to his approach to ecclesiology.