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What does it mean when we say that in a certain sense the Church is Hypostatic?
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The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ (see Acts 9:1-5, 1 Cor 12:12-14, Col 1:15-2:3, etc.). As such, the Catholic Church IS Our Blessed Lord, which Him as It's head, and all of us as It's members.
The Hypostatis Union refers very specifically to the union of the divine and human natures in Christ:
from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957
Hypostatic Union. The union of the human and divine natures in the one divine person of Christ. At the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) the Church declared tha the two natures of Christ are joined "in one person and one hypostasis" (Denzinger 302), where hypostasis means one substance. It was used to answer the Nestorian error of a merely accidental union of the two natures in Christ. The phrase "hypostatic union" was adopted a century later, at the fifth general council at Constantinople (A.D. 533). It is an adequate expression of Catholic doctrine about Jesus Christ that in Him are two perfect natures, divine and human; that the divine person takes to Himself, includes in His person a human nature; that the incarnate Son of God is an individual, complete substance; and that the union of the two natures is real (against Arius), no mere indwelling of God in a man (against Nestorius), with a rational soul (against Apollinaris), and the divinity remains unchanged (against Eutyches).
Thus when you are saying that the Church is Hypostatic "in a sense" that sense would be the joining of Christ with all of us, with Christ representing the Divine Nature, and us, representing the human nature.
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