{"id":26808,"date":"2025-11-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=26808"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:38:49","slug":"holy-dwellings-of-god-moradas-sagradas-de-dios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/11\/07\/holy-dwellings-of-god-moradas-sagradas-de-dios\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Dwellings of God \/ Moradas Sagradas de Dios"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Friday. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does a building of mortar and stone deserve such esteem as to set aside a Sunday? Because it celebrates the Mother Church of Roman Catholicism. Though St Peter\u2019s Basilica was built over the tomb of Peter, it was completed only in 1626. It lies within the Vatican where the Pope lives and governs, but his Cathedral is not there. Pope Sylvester I in 324 consecrated the Basilica of St John Lateran, and it is to this day the Cathedral of Rome, the oldest church in Rome, able to symbolize the fall of pagan Rome to Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our readings from Ezikiel and Psalm 46 link the Basilica with St. John the Baptist. Attached to it now but once separate from the Basilica, a Baptistry was built in 424, likely over the site of a baptismal pool used earlier. Inside the Basilica rests a relic from the skull of the Baptist buried in an image of his head. Then from Ezekiel, “the flowing<\/em>,\u00a0life giving water<\/em>”\u00a0(like John\u2019s Jordan); the Psalm\u2019s “water from the<\/em>\u00a0Temple” (from the Basilica); “waters that gladden the city of God,” (the New Jerusalem, the Church), “holy dwelling of the Most High,”\u00a0<\/em>all easily associated with Baptism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Paul offers added thoughts glorifying God\u2019s life in us. In one place he begs us to realize that we ourselves are\u00a0\u201cTemples of the living <\/em>God<\/em>\u201d\u00a0(2 Cor<\/strong>\u00a06:16-7:1).\u00a0In today\u2019s citation he wrote,\u00a0\u201cYou are God’s\u00a0building<\/u>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Indeed, each of you\u00a0\u2018”s God\u2019s Temple, the dwelling of God. His presence sanctifies you.<\/em>” \u00a0Never destroy that temple, Paul warns, by sin! So, gaze on the mortar and stone of the Basilica, but turn inward too and hear the Baptist,\u00a0\u201cMake(keep)\u00a0straight the way of the Lord<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turn now to the source of holiness, to Christ the Lord, in St. John\u2019s Gospel soon after Jesus had revealed His divine power at the Wedding Feast. John found it contributed to his plan in writing to further reveal Jesus\u2019 mighty power. Our Church likewise finds the passage excellent to\u00a0emphasize Christ\u2019s lesson on the holiness of the Temple\u2014of the Lateran Basilica, and the countless numbers of churches built after the model of the Mother Church of all churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, Christ claimed His own body to be the Temple of the Living God. \u201cDestroy this temple,\u201d<\/em> He said, \u201cand in three days I will raise it up.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Thus, early in John\u2019s Gospel, Chapter 2,\u00a0\u00a0does Jesus\u00a0declare the greatest of all signs, His Resurrection. We too, Temples of the Living God, must travel from our churches here to\u00a0the\u00a0magnificent\u00a0Church of the Kingdom of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDo you not know that you are the temple of God,<\/em> and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”\u00a0\u00a0(1 Cor 9:3)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Moradas Sagradas de Dios<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 un edificio de mortero y piedra merece tanta estima como para reservar un domingo? Porque celebra la Iglesia Madre del Catolicismo Romano. Aunque la Bas\u00edlica de San Pedro se construy\u00f3 sobre la tumba de Pedro, no se complet\u00f3 hasta 1626. Se encuentra dentro del Vaticano, donde vive y gobierna el Papa, pero su catedral no est\u00e1 all\u00ed. El Papa Silvestre I en 324 consagr\u00f3 la Bas\u00edlica de San Juan de Letr\u00e1n, y es hasta el d\u00eda de hoy la Catedral de Roma, la iglesia m\u00e1s antigua de Roma, capaz de simbolizar la ca\u00edda de la Roma pagana al cristianismo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuestras lecturas de Ezikiel y el Salmo 46 vinculan la Bas\u00edlica con San Juan Bautista. Adjunto a \u00e9l ahora, pero una vez separado de la Bas\u00edlica, se construy\u00f3 un Baptisterio en 424, probablemente sobre el sitio de una piscina bautismal utilizada anteriormente. En el interior de la Bas\u00edlica descansa una reliquia del cr\u00e1neo del Bautista enterrada en una imagen de su cabeza. Luego de Ezequiel, “el agua que fluye<\/em> y da vida” <\/em> (como el Jord\u00e1n de Juan); el “agua del “Templo” <\/em> del Salmo (de la Bas\u00edlica); ‘aguas que alegran la ciudad de Dios’ (la Nueva Jerusal\u00e9n, la Iglesia), ‘santa morada del Alt\u00edsimo’, <\/em>todo f\u00e1cilmente asociado con el Bautismo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Pablo ofrece pensamientos adicionales que glorifican la vida de Dios en nosotros. En un lugar nos ruega que nos demos cuenta de que nosotros mismos somos “Templos del Dios vivo<\/em>” <\/strong>(2 Corintios<\/strong> 6:16-7:1). En la cita de hoy escribi\u00f3: “Vosotros sois el edificio de Dios” <\/em>construido sobre el fundamento de Jesucristo. De hecho, cada uno de ustedes “es el templo de Dios, la morada de Dios. Su presencia te santifica’. <\/em> \u00a1Nunca destruyas ese templo, advierte Pablo, por el pecado! Por lo tanto, contempla el mortero y la piedra de la Bas\u00edlica, pero vu\u00e9lvete hacia adentro tambi\u00e9n y escucha al Bautista: “Endereza el camino del Se\u00f1or<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dir\u00edgete ahora a la fuente de la santidad, a Cristo Se\u00f1or, en el Evangelio de San Juan, poco despu\u00e9s de que Jes\u00fas revelara su divino poder en la fiesta de bodas. Juan descubri\u00f3 que contribuy\u00f3 a su plan por escrito para revelar a\u00fan m\u00e1s el gran poder de Jes\u00fas. Nuestra Iglesia tambi\u00e9n encuentra excelente el pasaje para enfatizar la lecci\u00f3n de Cristo sobre la santidad del Templo, de la Bas\u00edlica de Letr\u00e1n y el incontable n\u00famero de iglesias construidas seg\u00fan el modelo de la Iglesia Madre de todas las iglesias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Por lo tanto, Cristo afirm\u00f3 que su propio cuerpo era el templo del Dios vivo. “Destruid este templo”, <\/em>dijo, “y en tres d\u00edas lo levantar\u00e9”.<\/em> As\u00ed, al principio del Evangelio de Juan, Cap\u00edtulo 2, Jes\u00fas declara la mayor de todas las se\u00f1ales, Su Resurrecci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n nosotros, Templos del Dios Vivo, debemos viajar desde nuestras iglesias hasta la magn\u00edfica Iglesia del Reino de los Cielos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u00bfNo sab\u00e9is que sois templo de Dios,<\/em> y que el Esp\u00edritu de Dios habita en vosotros?”\u00a0\u00a0(1Corintios 9:3)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Friday. Ed Liptak, SDB Why does a building of mortar and stone deserve such esteem as to set aside a Sunday? Because it celebrates the Mother Church of Roman Catholicism. Though St Peter\u2019s Basilica was built over the tomb of Peter, it was completed only in 1626. It lies within the Vatican where the Pope lives and governs, but his Cathedral is not there. Pope … Continuar leyendo Holy Dwellings of God \/ Moradas Sagradas de Dios<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-6Yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26812,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808\/revisions\/26812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}