Just so you know, I am still excited not to be back in
classes again.
Speaking
of classes, our readings caused me to think of one of the courses I took at
seminary—ecclesiology—the study of the Church. It is in such study we examine why the Church looks like it
does today—why we have a pope and bishops, male priests and the authority
inherent in Church hierarchy.
Many
in our society belittle our Church.
They think she is old fashioned and in great need of updating. Yet our readings show why we can trust
the Church, even two thousand years after her founding. First, St. Paul notes that in Jesus “dwells the whole fullness of the
deity bodily.” Jesus is no ordinary individual starting a human
institution—he is God—and he established a divine institution.
Second, St. Luke records that, “Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and
he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and
from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles…” Jesus did not establish the Church
willy-nilly. He prayed for an
entire night, speaking and listening to His Father before choosing the leaders
of his Church. And later he
promised that he would be with us until the end of the age.
In
a society which thinks little of the Church, we have great reason to have faith
in her today.
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