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 high above the cherubim and moved to the terrace of the temple; and the temple was filled with the cloud, while the radiance of the glory of the LORD filled the court.
The glory of the LORD left the temple terrace and halted above the cherubim. – Ezek. 10:4, 18 (REB)
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 together in my name, I am there among them.’ – Matt. 18:20 (REB)
There are two of us here together now, are there not?
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
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