Vatican II In A Year Day 84: LG 48: The Church is called to be lifted up with Jesus
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Mar 25, 2025 A concise read of Lumen Gentium paragraph 48 focusing on the Church’s perfection in heaven and its pilgrim journey on earth. Conversations explore Christ working through the Church as a sacrament of salvation. Reflections on eschatology and the ‘already but not yet’ renewal of creation. A call to live with vigilance for the final consummation.
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Church's Perfection Is Completed In Heaven
- The Church reaches full perfection only in heaven where humanity and the world are perfectly re-established in Christ.
- Fr. Matthew explains the threefold Church (militant, suffering, triumphant) and that only the heavenly Church is perfect, sanctifying us through Christ.
Christ Acts Through The Church As Sacrament
- Christ, lifted up, draws all to himself and makes the Church the universal sacrament of salvation active by the Spirit.
- Fr. Matthew likens the Church to a vessel in a storm guided by Christ and nourished by the Eucharist.
We Live In The Already But Not Yet Consummation
- The final renovation of the world is irrevocably decreed and already anticipated, so we live in the 'already but not yet' of salvation history.
- Fr. Matthew emphasizes sacraments and saints as signs of this real yet imperfect sanctity amid a groaning creation.