Where is God?
In today's readings for the mass, Ezekiel receives a supersensible meaning to the confounding events of the sensible world: our city is gone because God has departed from it, appalled by our unfaithfulness. His vision makes sense of Jerusalem’s destruction as a divine evacuation.
The glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim, towards the threshold of the Temple; the Temple was filled by the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
Then the glory of the LORD came out over the Temple threshold and paused over the cherubim.
- Ezk 10:4, 18 (RNJB)
Where, then, is God?
Without a temple to house his glory on earth, where can we find the shelter of his presence?
For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.
- Mt 18:20 (RNJB)
There are two of us here together now, are there not?
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
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