This Is Perfect !

Brothers and sisters: You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones  and members of the household of God, 
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.
Through him, the whole structure is held together
and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;
in him, you also are being built together
into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Make sure that you read the quote from Ephesians 2: 19-22 above, heck, I am going to memorize it - and yes, I know I am a Catholic and am not supposed to have a knowledge of scripture, or at least that is what some of our evangelistic Bible-thumping Protestant friends might say.  I have to say that this is the first time that I have come upon this reading even though I have read Ephesians a dozen times.  This time, this passage is really, really speaking to me!  Good grief and three sun rises to Sunday, Paul is describing the Church, not just any old Church but the Catholic Church!   Let's have some fun and take this passage apart and meditate on what it is telling us. 

Brothers and sisters: You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones  and members of the household of God, 
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.

Here we are told that we no longer need to search, we have instead become fellow citizens with the saints and all other members of the household of God. We are members of a Church built on a solid foundation, sunk deep to bedrock through the ministry of the Apostles and Prophets and held together by Jesus as the capstone - the famed stone that the builders rejected! 

Through him, the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;

Jesus holds the whole Church together and it is a structure that is Sacred in the Lord.

in him, you also are being built together
into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Through Christ, we ourselves, are being formed into a dwelling place of God who has sanctified us.  We now worship God in His Church, in bodies that he has made for Himself a dwelling place.

We no longer need to search for truth as it has been delivered to us vis Jesus Himself through His Church.  We can trust the teachings that the Church gives to us because it is protected from error by the Holy Spirit. 

With such assurance is it possible that we as members of the Household of God can consider coming out of our shells and develop a voice whose confident tone and timbre will cause the pagan world to stop in their tracks and take notice?  Let us pray that we take the words of this reading and meditate on them and make them part of our spiritual life.  The world will never be the same once the Household of God has its say. 

Our brothers and sisters in Purgatory form part of the Household of God too.  They need our prayers to help them to leave this place.  Please say a prayer or two for them today.