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A MAP OF LIFE prwerving and increasing of this life of Grace in 'lus soul. ~ We are now at last in a position to take stock of the life of the member of Christ’s Church. The primary fact about him is that he is not an isolated unit, pursuing his own soUtary path to his own private goal. He is a ceil in a living Body, the Body of Christ. As such he has a special reladon to Christ: for Christ’s life flows through every cell in Christ’s Mystical Body. The cell — ^that is to say, the individual Catholic — may yield his will wholly to Christ, or partially, or not at all: and, according to which of these he chooses to do, he will have the Life flowing through him in plenitvide^ or less fully or not at all: for a man can be a dead cell in the Body, retaining faith, but not vivified by charity. But in so far as his will is right, then Christ lives in him; and because Christ, then the Holy Ghost likewise: the Spirit of God, proceeding from the Father and the Son, in His own adorable essence the bond of love between Father and Son and so ever known by the Church as the Giver of Life: for the Supernatural Life is inseparable from the virtue of charity, which is love. Thus the member of the Church, living supernaturally, is indwelt by the Holy Ghost, organically united to Christ who is God the Son, and by Him brought to the Father. The relation of all the redeemed to Christ involves a relation of all to each other. The one life flows through them all: all are sharing in the divine life 128