This excerpt is taken from an address given in Newark, New Jersey on October 5, 1996
"In order to bring us salvation, Jesus established the Church to be "a kind of sacrament - a sign and instrument - of intimate union with God and of the unity of all mankind" (Lumen Gentium n.1). AMong the many magnificent images which the Bible uses to describe teh Church, one of the most beautiful is that of the house in which God dwells with his people (cf. Eph 2:19-22). The Lord wants his CHurch to "make a home" in the midst of every people, grafting the gifts of salvation on to the history and culture of each nation...Jesus sends his disciple into people's houses, to bring them his peace (cf Lk 10:5). In every place where people make their homes and live their lives, a disciple of Jesus must arrive to say: "The Kingdom of God is at hand" (cf. Lk 10:9).
Taken from "Spes Nostra" Volume 4 Number 1 (1996)
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