Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles, Monday, October 28, 2024
- Alaina Lanik
- Oct 27, 2024
- 1 min read
Reading 1
Eph 2:19-22
Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,
with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.
Through him the whole structure is held together
and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;
in him you also are being built together
into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Reflection
Through Jesus there is redemption and a new beginning in which the church’s foundation stands, through Jesus the “cornerstone”. For reference a cornerstone is the first stone laid in the process of a build, to which all other stones come after it. This is similar to how Jesus started the church and named his apostles so they could continue after Him. Just as a cornerstone anchors and aligns the rest of the structure, Jesus provides the basis upon which the church is built, giving it shape, strength, and unity. Through Him, we are not merely individuals but part of a larger, sacred structure, the holy Catholic church.
Salve Alaina:
God bless you for writing.
Let's think together.
Let's ask about the meaning of the word "a cornerstone."
We know what it does or its purpose and function. It is the stone that lays at the corner of a building. It is supposed to be the foundation stone. It provides, as you wrote, "anchor and alignment" for the structure of the whole building.
That said, let's ask how many stones are there that lay at the corner of a building? In other words, how many cornerstones could a building have? The simple answer is at every corner! A house with four corners should have four conerstones. An octagon building should have eight. How about a round building? Does…