[The Parish...]
Here as God through his church calls new candidates into the sacred and lifelong ministry of reconciliation and of oversight, his ordained representatives commit to these new officers of the militia Christi the authority to proclaim the Word of God, to remit and retain sins, and to administer the Sacraments.
Here Christian men and women whom God has called to life together by their mutual consent in Holy Matrimony initiate a new cell of the church and in their life of mutual love and concern enact the mystery of the bond that unites the Heavenly Bridegroom with His bride the church.
--A. C. Piepkorn, *The Church* p. 124
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