The members of the Church Militant, i.e. those Christians on earth, are engaged in spiritual warfare against sin in order that, when they die, they might enter heaven and join the Church Triumphant.

2023年2月15日 · The term “church triumphant” underlines the truth that in the glory of heaven all human sin will have been transformed, death and suffering will be no more, and the glory of God will have triumphed over all the imperfections of human history. The church militant refers to the Church on earth.

2024年4月16日 · The churches militant, penitent, and triumphant are not church buildings that we can see and touch. These churches symbolise the people of God, divided into three based on their state of life. These three divisions represent the three levels of our church, one that while we are living in this world, and two when we die.

2024年4月29日 · What is the church triumphant? • The Church Militant is the church on earth—they are militant in that they are in action, fighting the good fight. • The Church Suffering is the church in purgatory —they are suffering for their sins until they have been purged and are worthy of entering the presence of God.

In Catholic teaching, the church on earth is called "militant" because its people have to work against the designs of Satan and lead themselves and others to Heaven, where they form the "Church Triumphant" (Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. "Church").

The faithful members of the church militant will join the church triumphant when Jesus bestows on them their emblems of victory—the crown of glory, the victor’s palm and the shining harp—at the gates to the holy city.

2021年8月29日 · But at the present time some of his disciples are pilgrims on earth [the Church Militant]. Others have died and are being purified [the Church Suffering], while still others are in glory, contemplating ‘in full light, God himself triune and one, exactly as …

2024年9月19日 · What is the Church Militant? Spurgeon drew his doctrine of the church militant from the overarching story of Scripture. Ever since the arrival of the serpent in the Garden, [7] there has been “a deadly hereditary feud between the Christian and the powers of darkness.”

2016年9月16日 · The Church, the Mystical Body, exists on this earth, and is called the Church militant, because its members struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil. The Church suffering means the souls in Purgatory. The Church triumphant is the Church in heaven.

2023年9月3日 · The Church Militant For we earthly pilgrims, Jesus asks us the very same question that He proffered to His disciples: “But who do you say that I am?” (Mt 16:15) As we traverse these times in which God has appointed us to live, our answer makes all the difference.