Quick question about God's nature and Catholic statements about It

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In a Catholic book of prayers that I bought for personal use that is stamped with the NIHIL OBSTAT, there is a statement about God’s nature that says this:

“God is a pure spirit, a sovereign intelligence who has no body and who cannot be perceived by our senses.”

A sovereign intelligence who has no body?

My question is, doesn’t Jesus have a body? It was my understanding that He took up a body in the Incarnation. Now, if Jesus has a body, and if Jesus is God, doesn’t God have a body? Jesus’ body? I am confused. Please help a poor simpleton understand this.
 
Jesus is both God and man. He is both human and divine. God, as God, is pure spirit, having no body. Jesus, the second person of the blessed Trinity, took upon himself a human nature. So speaking of Jesus as man, he was fully human. He had a body. Jesus, as God, is pure spirit. The divine nature is pure spirit. The human nature has a body. But remember, the human nature is human, not divine. The divine nature is divine, not human. Jesus, in his personhood, possesses both natures.
 
The book is probably referring to the essence of God perfectly shown in God the Father who does not have a body, and also shown in Christ where he did not have a body until about 2011 years ago. Before that he did not have a body just like the Holy Spirit and the Father.
 
That clears it up perfectly well. Thank you so much for your replies. A pleasure as always 🙂
 
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