“Christ says to Saul: Why persecutest thou Me?  Precisely, the Church is Christ and Christ is the Church – such is the Divine equation.  Saul learned a lesson which he afterwards taught as Paul: The Church is the body of Christ.  This new body, sometimes called the mystical body, is to be understood after the analogy of the human body which is made up of many members performing different functions and yet all cooperating toward the harmony of the whole.  The hand is not the foot, the eye is not the ear, the heart is not the lung.  So, too, the priest is not the layman, the apostle is not the disciple, the Vicar of Christ is not the deacon – and yet all are one in the same spirit.”     Archbishop Fulton Sheen