Imagine a three-legged table.  If you remove one of the legs the table will fall.  The Roman Catholic Church is like a three-legged table.  One leg is Sacred Scripture.  One leg is Sacred Doctrine.  One leg is Social Action.

Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M. Sp.S. Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago

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on the Social Action "leg" of the

Roman Catholic Church.

By its union with Christ, the People of the New Covenant, far from closing in upon itself, becomes a “sacrament” for humanity, a sign and instrument of the salvation achieved by Christ, the light of the world and the salt of the earth 

(cf. Mt 5:13-16), for the redemption of all.  The Church's mission stands in continuity with the mission of Christ: “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you” (Jn 20:21).  From the perpetuation of the sacrifice of the Cross and her communion with the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, the Church draws the spiritual power needed to carry out her mission.  The Eucharist thus appears as both the source and the summit of all evangelization, since its goal is the communion of mankind with Christ and in him with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Papal Encyclical "Ecclesia de Eucharistia", Pope John Paul II, 4/17/2003

We are sent forth from the Eucharistic table to live out Christ's Word in accord with Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church in service to the "least of my brothers and sisters."

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