Wednesday, 10/24/12
In his Letter to the Ephesians Paul exulted in the fact that
God had chosen him and the Apostles to make known the great mystery underlying all
creation: namely, that it is God’s will to bring all of creation together in
Christ.
One wonders how that could be. We might ask, “Since Jesus
lived and died two thousand years ago, what grand influence could he have on
all the non-Christian infants to be born in Mongolia and Uganda?”
However, if we start at the other end of creation we can see
some connection. I mean, John’s Gospel identified Jesus as the Word of God
through whom all things came to be. John there implied that no living person comes
to be except through the Word.
So, all of us, even the yet-to-be-born Mongolian and Ugandan
babies, we were all together in Christ at the beginning of creation. How,
though, can we be together at the end of creation?
I don’t know, but the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin spoke of
all creation eventually converging; and in line with St. John calling Christ the
Alpha and the Omega, de Chardin hypothesized that by a reverse type of
evolution all creation would converge at what he called the Omega point.
Paul said his revelation concerning God bringing us all
together in Christ was a mystery, and perhaps we will need to leave it at that.
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