The linkage which unites Christians in a common body is a linkage which crosses the boundaries of the centuries as well as the lines of longitude and latitude... The Christian community, the Church, is a massive body spread out across the map of history. It is a body quivering with life in all its members. All its members; not just those passing here and now between birth and death. That is the community the Christian joins at baptism.1

Harry Blamires