What is personal relationship with Christ?

[Matt16_18]

trustmc:

Despite my claims to membership in the Communion of Saints, I would still hardly call this arrangement an “intimate” and “personal” relationship.

What kind of arrangement is it then? Is the Communion of Saints, for you, something analogous to a grouping of all people within the same Area Code?

Apart from this forum, I can’t counsel you on spiritual matters according to your deepest needs …

Your qualifications to give me spiritual counseling are what?

Yes, the Church doesn’t exist apart from Christ, but one would be hard pressed, including you apparently, to find any official Church teaching from the Magisterium that has come to the same outlandish conclusions about Mary and her alleged indwelling in your heart.

Where have I ever said that I believe in the indwelling of Mary and the Saints? What I have said is that union with Christ in the Eucharist brings me into an intimate and personal union with the Mary and the Saints.**Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph 5. The Communion of Saints

I. COMMUNION IN SPIRITUAL GOODS

950** Communion of the sacraments. “The fruit of all the sacraments belongs to all the faithful. All the sacraments are sacred links uniting the faithful with one another and binding them to Jesus Christ, and above all Baptism, the gate by which we enter into the Church. The communion of saints must be understood as the communion of the sacraments. . . . The name ‘communion’ can be applied to all of them, for they unite us to God. . . . But this name is better suited to the Eucharist than to any other, because it is primarily the Eucharist that brings this communion about.”

953 Communion in charity. In the sanctorum communio, “None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.” “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.” “Charity does not insist on its own way.” In this solidarity with all men, living or dead, which is founded on the communion of saints, the least of our acts done in charity redounds to the profit of all. Every sin harms this communion.

II. THE COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

957 Communion with the saints. “It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints joins us to Christ, from whom as from its fountain and head issues all grace, and the life of the People of God itself” …
Many Christians believe that they can love Jesus and despise the leper. Many Christians believe that they can love Jesus and despise the poor. But they are mistaken.

“Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.”