The Church is the “seed and beginning” of the Kingdom of God.
In this week’s Wednesday audience, Pope Leo XIV continues his catechesis on the Second Vatican Council and ‘Lumen gentium,’ reflecting on the eschatological dimension of the Church.
The Church journeys through this earthly history, always looking toward her final destination—the heavenly homeland. But we may often overlook or downplay this eschatological dimension of the Church, caught up in the more visible and concrete concerns of the Christian life.
We are called to keep our eyes on this final horizon, measuring and evaluating everything from this perspective, while acknowledging our need for continual conversion so that we can properly fulfill the mission of the Church.
“Therefore, the Church realizes her mission between the ‘already’ of the beginning of the kingdom of God in Jesus, and the ‘not yet’ of its promised and anticipated fulfillment.”


