Where is God?
In today's readings for the mass, Ezekiel receives a supersensible meaning to the confounding events of the sensible world: our city is gone because God has departed from it, appalled by our unfaithfulness. His vision makes sense of Jerusalem’s destruction as a divine evacuation.
And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherubim to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
Then the glory of the LORD went forth from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. – Ezekiel 10:4, 18 (RSV-CE)
Where, then, is God?
Without a temple to house his glory on earth, where can we find the shelter of his presence?
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. – Matthew 18:20 (RSV-CE)
There are two of us here together now, are there not?
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
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