MR 5.D 4 marks of the church analysis

The church fathers are insanely important because they are the connection between God and man. They also administer the sacraments through Christ so we can be filled with grace, expelled from sin and eventually join God in heaven. According to the text, and Greek etymology of Catholic means universal. It ties to the four marks of the church since being universal is one of the four marks that the church must have to be the true church. The four marks of the church are 1) one (together, United) 2.) holy(since the church was founded by Christ who is holy) 3.) catholic(which means universal) and 4.) apostolic(apostles administer the sacraments to achieve holiness). Cyprian of Carthage says that "multitude withdraws because it does not wish to obey, yet the Church does not withdraw from Christ." The church therefore is one with Christ since it can't withdraw from Him. It also shows the flaws in humans since we can withdraw from the church at any time. The council of Constantinople I expertly states the 4 marks of the church when they say "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke through the prophets; in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." The council includes all 4 that we talked about in class that are explained near the beginning of the paragraph. Finally, Cyril of Jerusalem perfectly states "[The Church] is called catholic, then, because it extends over the whole world, from end to end of the earth, and because it teaches universally and infallibly each and every doctrine which must come to the knowledge of men, concerning things visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly, and because it brings every race of men into subjection to godliness, governors and governed, learned and unlearned, and because it universally treats and heals every class of sins, those committed with the soul and those with the body, and it possesses within itself every conceivable form of virtue, in deeds and in words and in the spiritual gifts of every description." Personally, I feel like this quote perfectly explains everything you need you know about the word Catholic. It even touches up on a couple of ideas I didn't touch on in the beginning like  forgiveness of sin.