Kenyan People
Quería Jesús templos, basílicas, monumentos????
Jesus had very little appreciation for the Temple of Jerusalem. In fact he spent most of his life away from him. When he was there visiting, it was usually the occasion of conflict, confrontation with those responsible. His temple were the roads of Judea and Galilee, the sky was his roof and stones in the road or a boat to the lake is situated, from which he taught and had direct contact with people. All very little sacred in the sense that we ourselves, Christians and disciples of Jesus, we are taking today to the temple, to church.
O most sacred in the best sense of the word. Because the Christian perspective changed radically since the time of incarnation. When God became man, our human reality itself becomes sacred place in the place of God's presence. And there is no church like that. St. Paul puts it perfectly when he says "are God's building." The most important thing for Christians are the people and not the bricks. In fact, early Christians had no temples in the usual sense of the word. Not needed. They were few and met in homes. Later, when the number of believers grew they took a larger venue and imitated the Roman basilicas, temples but never were meeting places, what you see in the interior of the space distribution. Our churches are shrines, places for the community to meet, pray, hear the word, share the bread, engage and organize the common life.
Holiness, the sacred, is in the lives of people of every person and all people. There we discovered and we should worship the presence of God who became one of us. There is nothing more sacred than the lives of others. And we should hurt the soul to see how these temples of God's presence are sometimes humiliated, hurt, marginalized, oppressed ... Build the temple begins to respect the dignity of a brother and love as God loves. The Lateran Basilica Church reminds us that, beyond the reality of local churches, is a single body, a single building in which it is all humanity and nobody is excluded.
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