Sunday, October 27 : Saint Hilary

Christ «will hand over the Kingdom to his Father» says Saint Paul (1Cor 15,24), not in the sense that he will let go of his own power by handing over the Kingdom but because we are the ones who will become the Kingdom of God when we have been conformed to his glorious body… It is ourselves he will hand over to God when he has constituted us «Kingdom of God» through the glorification of his body. It is ourselves he will hand over as Kingdom to the Father, as the Gospel says: «Come, blessed of my Father, receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world». «Then the righteous shall shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father» (Mt 13,43). For the Son will hand over to God those he has invited into his Kingdom as being his Kingdom, those to whom he promised with these words the blessedness proper to this mystery: «Blessed the pure in heart for they shall see God» (Mt 5,8)… Christ delivers the Kingdom to God and now those whom he hands over as his Kingdom to God will see God. Our Lord himself made known to his apostles in what this Kingdom consists: «The Kingdom of God is within you» (Lk 17,21). And if one of you is wanting to know who he is who is handing over the Kingdom, listen to this: «Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being» (1Cor 15,20-21). This has to do with the mystery of the Body, for Christ was the first to be raised from the dead… And so it is for the sake of the development of the humanity assumed by Christ that «God will be all in all» (1Cor 15,28).

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