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THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH follows of necessity from the unity of God; for the Church is not a multitude of persons in their separate individuality, but a unity of the grace of God, living in a multitude of rational creatures, submitting themselves willingly to grace. Grace, indeed, is also given to those who resist it, and to those who do not make use of it (who hide their talent in the earth), but these are not in the Church. In fact, the unity of the Church is not imaginary or allegorical, but a true and substantial unity, such as is the unity of many members in a living body.
The Church is one, notwithstand- ing her division as it appears to a man who is still alive on earth. It is only in relation to man that it is possible to recognize a division of the Church into visible and invisible; her unity is, in reality, true and absolute. Those who are alive on earth, those who have finished their earthly course, those who, like the angels, were not created for a life on earth, those in future generations who have not yet begun their earthly course, are all united together in one Church, in one and the same grace of God; for the creation of God which has not yet been manifested is manifest to Him; and God hears the prayers and knows the faith of those whom He has not yet called out of non-existence into existence.
Anglo-Catholic Parishes:
Some Examples
All Saints, Margaret Street, London
All Saints' Parish, Ashmont, Mass.
All Saints' Parish, San Diego
Christ Church St. Lawrence, Sydney
Church of the Advent, Boston
Church of the Advent, San Francisco
Church of the Ascension, Chicago
Church of the Holy Cross, Dallas
Church of the Incarnation, Dallas
Church of the Resurrection, New York
Grace & St. Peter's Church, Baltimore
Grace Church, Newark
Grace Episcopal Church, Sheboygan
Little Church Around the Corner, New York
Little Saint Mary's, Cambridge
St. Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford
St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia
St. Francis, Dallas
St. John the Evangelist, Montreal
St. John the Evangelist, Newport
St John's Church, Detroit
St. Mark's English Church, Florence
St. Mark's Fitzroy, Melbourne
St. Mary's Bourne Street, London
St. Mary the Virgin, New York City
St. Mary's Church, Staten Island
St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, New Jersey
St. Michael's By-the-Sea, Carlsbad, California
St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, London
St. Matthias' Church, Dallas
St. Paul's Parish K Street, Washington, DC
St. Stephen's Church, Providence
St. Thomas Church, New York
St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, Bedford, TX
