“The Church is the mystery made perceptible.”
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council, reflecting on ‘Lumen gentium’ and the mystery of the Church.
The Church as mystery is not something obscure or incomprehensible, but rather a reality that was previously hidden and is now revealed. In this sense, the Church is both a sign and an instrument of the mystery—of God’s divine plan to unite all people to him through his Son. It is through the Church that God achieves the aim of bringing people to him and uniting them with one another.
This understanding should make us “grateful to belong to the Church, the body of the risen Christ and the one pilgrim people of God journeying through history, which lives as a sanctifying presence in the midst of a still fragmented humanity, as an effective sign of unity and reconciliation among peoples.”


