id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005456980 Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955. What is this Mystical Body? 1939 .txt text/plain 2841 226 90 Christ, according to the record kept by St. John, promised His disciples that He would unite His followers as closely with Himself as branches are united with the vine. As the vine is rooted in the earth and draws its life out of the earth (that life-giving sap which is essential if the vine and branches are to live), so Christ is rooted, to use Sue's quite descriptive word, in the Blessed Trinity in heaven. cache/_005456980.txt txt/_005456980.txt