Unpacking the Word

There will come a day when people will stream to Jerusalem, not the physical city but the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church. Instruction shall go forth from this New Jerusalem, as when the Apostles began carrying the good news to Jerusalem and Judea, to Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, and as when the Church teaches authoritatively today on faith and morals.

In so many ways, King David points ahead to his most famous descendant to be authoritatively declared the King of the Jews: Jesus of Nazareth.

In these waning days of the liturgical year, as the lectionary readings have an increasingly pronounced focus on the end times, the Lord invites us once again to ponder the reality of our individual judgement at death and the final judgement at the end of time

The Prophet Ezekial saw a vision of the New Temple, and Jesus made this vision a reality.