(Please read the above Scriptural passage before the homily.)
Likewise, the most fragile parts are the more Important. We do not hide the face, but we clothe the reproductive organs.
Many members make up one body. Out of many members unity comes. The hand and the toes are part of the body; the head and the knees are part of the body; the belly button and the skin are parts of the one body. The many parts come together to form one body. If the ear or the knee hurts, the whole body hurts with the ear or knee. If one part suffers, the whole body likewise shares the same pain.
In our society, it is the same. The weakest members of society are the most important. Babies and children, along with the elderly are the most important members. The strongest members ought to service the weaker ones.
The gift of children is the future of society; the gift of the elderly is the history of society. The gift of the strongest is the present of society. All the parts must work together for the good of the whole society.
Christ likewise has a body. All of us, Jewish and non-Jewish, slave and free, have received baptism into the same Spirit to make up only one body.” Christ has only one body because there can be only one Christ. His glorified body contains all of us, all the members of his Church, all of us living and all of us dead people. There are many members, but only one body. Just as the human body has 37 trillion cells, so also does the body of Christ have many members. The whole Church is the body of Christ, and each individual is likewise the body of Christ.
Each one of us is important and necessary, and we have a commitment to the Church just as each cell in the body has an obligation to the human body. Since we are all important in the Church, Pope Francis wants each of us to take part in the process for the Synod of the Church. He human body is synodal since all of them cells work together with each other. For the same reason, the body of Christ is synodal with all the parts working together with each other.
If one member of the body is in pain, the whole body suffers. If one member of the Church suffers, the whole body of Christ suffers. If refugees suffer, er likewise suffer. We are joined together with the members of Christ in Mexico, in Russia, in China, and in Italy because we are the one body of Christ.