The Church is one body. Paul writes, « We were baptised into one body in a single Spirit » (1 Corinthians 12:13). But this one body has many parts. As Paul says, « If they were all the same part, how could it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one » (1 Corinthians 12:19). Not everyone can be everything. Often we expect one member of the body to fulfill a task that belongs to others. But the hand cannot be asked to see nor the eye to hear.

Together we are Christ’s body, each of us with a part to play in the whole (see 1 Corinthians 12:27). Let’s be grateful for our limited but real part in the body.