Welcome to Life of the Spirit

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It is not only out of affection for our English brethren that we have so willingly agreed to write the editorial of this first number of The Life of the Spirit. It is also an opportunity to put into Practice a dogma, which is dear to us and which We strive constantly to bring home to our readers in La Vie Spirituelle: the dogma of the Communion of Saints. As Fr Congar pointed out recently (Vie Intettectuelle, April, 1946), the fact that we belong to one Church, to a Communion of Saints, not only means that we have one head, or that we live, each on his own, by one faith expressed in the same acts of worship; it also means that between the parts of this whole which we make up, there exist relations of exchange, intercommunication, mutual help, etc… . Can we imagine a body in which the members, although linked to the same head, have no vital connexion with one another? Such a thing is unthinkable.