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Departure from Egypt
About the text: The Church is on a pilgrimage to the Promised Land, the New Jerusalem. This is prefigured in the people of Israel as they left Egypt during the Exodus. Leaving the bondage of slavery and crossing through the water of the Red Sea, the people of Israel were gathered at Mount Sinai where the assembly is first called “ekklesia,” the word use…
City of God XVIII.49-54
About the author: Augustine of Hippo (354-430), a native of North Africa—the Roman Empire’s most profitable Latin-speaking province—was faced with the turmoil that erupted following the sack of Rome by Alaric the Goth in 410. Rather than lament the desecration of the “eternal city,” he wrote a refutation of the pagans who were blaming the event on those…
The Church in Exile
About the text: The First Letter of Peter is known as one of the “catholic epistles,” not because it is read only by Catholics, but because it was written to the whole, that is “catholic,” Church. In it Peter addresses Christians as exiles, living in a land not their own; while he encourages us to be obedient to the civil authorities, he also urges us n…
Excerpts from Catechism of the Catholic Church
About the text: Drawing especially from St. Augustine’s City of God and the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the current state of the Church as one of pilgrimage to the heavenly Kingdom. Just as he provided manna for the Israelites to eat on their way to the Promi…