Abandoning the Body of the Church is the SAME as Abandoning the Soul of the Church
The Body and Soul of the Church
The Church in both its body and soul follows the earthly life of its Divine Master Jesus - from Adam and Eve until the End of Time - from its conception, birth (Pentecost) - growing in wisdom and grace (throughout the centuries) to its passion and death - and we are now awaiting the resurrection of the Church. This is the only way to look at it.
If you are not linked to following Jesus through the Church - the soul of the Church which is very much alive - although its body is dead like Christ at the crucifixion - then you can NOT rise with Christ and his Church at all. Those who abandon the Church by rejecting all notion of perpetual succession and universal agreement of having a Pope since the middle of last century - particularly in its soul - will NOT rejoin to its resurrected body - which should be very soon.
We must be faithful and loyal and remain alive in the soul (that which is internal to the church - i.e. the virtues of faith, hope and charity) of the Church - one means is through prayer - no matter what the current body (the external aspects of the Church - i.e. the Mass and the Sacraments) is doing - and pray for the Pope, the Bishops and the priests. For Only the Pope has the ability and is the only one man on earth who can bring about the resurrection - the re-joining of the body and soul of the Church by and through the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.