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00:30Hello dear brothers and sisters! Welcome to the Active Evangelization virtual classroom.
00:34In this course on Pauline Writings, which we are now practically finished with,
00:40We are almost at the end, or progressing through our fourth module,
00:44We are now going to talk about the topic of the church within the spirituality of Saint Paul.
00:50And well, for centuries we've said let's go to church
00:54and we have referred to the construction of the temple
00:58where we celebrate the Sundays of the Eucharist and the sacraments.
01:03It is the community's meeting place.
01:06This has led people to believe that this is the church.
01:08and that a Catholic hardly identifies as a church.
01:13It's strange that he says that he is the church, that we are the church.
01:19These are ideas that the Second Vatican Council contributed and that not everyone is familiar with.
01:25and that they are really going to start a revolution in the thinking of some baptized people.
01:36Let us remember that only 20% of baptized brothers attend mass.
01:40We can say that the idea of the church in general is in the people
01:46that only on Sundays when they go to mass or when they go to a baptism
01:51or some other celebration, when they attend a funeral,
01:55Well, they say I'm going to church, I'm going to that place,
01:59that place where the funeral mass will be celebrated,
02:03the wedding, the christening, etc.
02:04However, for Saint Paul it is not so.
02:09The church is Paul's home.
02:12It is the home where, as a father and pastor, I...
02:15He meets with his brothers and sisters and eats and prays with them.
02:21In that atmosphere they comfort one another,
02:24They are encouraged to move forward, etc.
02:26For Paul, the church is not about a specific time,
02:32like Mass or something like that, or a place, an enclosure.
02:37For Paul and his converts, the church is their family.
02:42It's not even a meeting of people,
02:45but of those whom he loves.
02:48It is therefore not a place where a liturgical or sacramental function is performed,
02:53but where he encounters the living and resurrected Christ
02:58that dwells in each of those who have gathered
03:00to celebrate the Lord.
03:04Finally, we could say that it is not only an earthly society,
03:08which it is,
03:09but a colony of heaven established on earth.
03:14Those gathered may come from different social strata,
03:18from different families, from different backgrounds.
03:22But they are all united by one thing,
03:27faith in the risen Christ,
03:29who gather to give glory to God
03:31and to partake of the one and broken bread,
03:34who is the same Jesus.
03:37There are no distinctions there,
03:39There are no reserved places.
03:42We are all children of God,
03:45And love is the common bond,
03:49as he clearly shows, particularly in his letter to the Corinthians,
03:54in chapter 11,
03:57where he discusses this topic at length.
04:02With this vision,
04:04With this idea of family that Pablo has,
04:07The idea arises that permeates his mind
04:10and that it must be the same one that permeates ours,
04:15that helps us understand
04:17what we really are.
04:21And for that purpose,
04:21I would like us to review what the apostle tells us
04:24in chapter 4 of his letter to the Ephesians,
04:28verses 4 and 5.
04:30Let's turn to this letter.
04:31In this letter he tells us
04:37There is one body and one spirit,
04:42just as they were also called to one hope,
04:47one Lord,
04:48one faith,
04:50one baptism.
04:52In this text,
04:53in this appointment,
04:54Saint Paul compares the unity of the church
04:56with the unity of the body
04:58and with the unity of the spirit,
05:00who is the one who animates this single body.
05:03However,
05:04amidst all the divisions we have,
05:07Methodists,
05:08Anglicans,
05:10Pentecostals,
05:11etc.,
05:12it would be difficult to see in them
05:15one church.
05:18And that's where we Catholics should be included.
05:22However,
05:23Look at what Paul says in his letter to the Galatians,
05:26Chapter 3,
05:27verse 28.
05:30You are all children of God
05:35through faith in Christ Jesus,
05:38because all who have been baptized into Christ
05:41They have clothed themselves in Christ.
05:44There are no more Jews,
05:45nor Greek,
05:46nor a slave,
05:47nor free,
05:47nor man,
05:48neither woman,
05:49but all of you
05:51They are one in Christ Jesus.
05:54Pentecostals,
05:59Methodists,
06:02Evangelicals,
06:04Catholics,
06:05We all recognize Jesus
06:08like our Lord,
06:09like our God.
06:11We have all been baptized in the name of the Father,
06:14of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
06:16We are all brothers and sisters.
06:18Will we have any differences?
06:22But are we siblings?
06:24Or will we have to say
06:26Is that all that will happen in heaven?
06:30That's not the case,
06:33my brothers.
06:34The big problem
06:35We just haven't understood.
06:38the deep part that unites us
06:40and it is the death of Christ,
06:42their union with Him.
06:44With Him we have died
06:45And we have risen.
06:48And everyone who has died in Him
06:49and everyone who has been raised in Him
06:51is one with Him.
06:55Unfortunately,
06:56in the Catholic Church,
06:57We have only recently resumed
06:59the rite of baptism by immersion,
07:02something that separated brothers
07:03They have lived for centuries
07:04and above all, it's done alone
07:06in adults or young people.
07:10This ritual was practiced in ancient times
07:12made it clear
07:14And he has to make us understand,
07:16as we have already seen,
07:19that indeed baptism
07:21It leads us to death
07:23and that in baptism
07:25We have died with Christ.
07:27Already Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
07:30in their post-baptismal catechesis
07:32He was commenting on how baptism
07:34It's like diving into the water three times.
07:38and in each of them
07:40the catechumen was told,
07:42when submerged
07:43You've seen everything in black,
07:46as a result of almost suffocating
07:48the person.
07:49And after getting out of the water
07:51You have taken the air that gives you life
07:54And you have seen the light.
07:55An experience.
07:57Baptism
07:58It was truly the experience
08:01of death.
08:03Today the little boy
08:05baptized by sprinkling
08:07He does not have this experience.
08:10It's an experience we don't have.
08:13We don't understand each other.
08:15really
08:16like dead people.
08:18All these signs
08:21in ontological reality
08:23of baptism
08:24They describe us
08:26that we have died
08:28and that we have passed
08:30to a new life.
08:33We have been reborn
08:34as the Lord says
08:35in the Gospel of Saint John.
08:38In those rites
08:39It has great importance
08:42the deacon
08:43who was the one who baptized
08:44and who represents the church.
08:46we die
08:48in hands
08:49of the church
08:50And it is the same church
08:51the one that gives us life.
08:53It is the one that immerses us
08:55and at the same time
08:57the one that welcomes us.
08:59The one that gets us out
09:00from the darkness
09:01to take us
09:03into the light.
09:05Taken underwater
09:06the believers
09:07are buried
09:08with Christ
09:09and are received
09:11in the new family
09:12to begin with
09:14a new way of life.
09:16At baptism
09:18we stopped living
09:19for ourselves
09:20And now we live
09:21for God.
09:23This is what really
09:24identifies Christians.
09:26We are the people
09:27of the dead
09:28in Christ
09:29in a way
09:30that everything old
09:31has happened
09:31and everything has become new.
09:34The standard
09:35of all
09:36It is the Gospel
09:38and he has died
09:40to everything else.
09:41from there
09:43The unit comes from.
09:45And you see.
09:46my beloved brothers
09:47Could this be why?
09:50we failed
09:51This unit?
09:53Why not really
09:54Are we dying?
09:56Why don't we feel
09:57dead
09:57reborn in Christ?
09:59Could that be why?
10:00Catholics
10:01that we don't take
10:02oh really
10:03the Gospel
10:03and we seek to live it
10:05to the letter
10:06how do you say
10:07Didn't we find
10:09unit
10:09and support points
10:11with our brothers
10:12separated?
10:14I think that's a point
10:16important reflection
10:17die
10:19to be reborn
10:21to a new life
10:23guided
10:24through the Gospel.
10:25And well
10:26Let's leave it here
10:27our reflection
10:28and we continue
10:29in a few moments
10:30This interesting topic
10:32about the mystery
10:33of the Church.
10:37Thank you!