Gathered Together From the Ends of the Earth
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This episode reflects on the theme of unity within the Church, drawing from various saints and scriptural references.
The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Optional Memorials of St Maria Goretti and St Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions - The Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot · Liturgical Colours: White/Green/Red This week the Hours return constantly to a single image: the Church as one body, gathered from scattered pieces into a single loaf. Saint Clement opens and closes the week pleading against the schism dividing the Corinthians. The Didache prays it directly on Wednesday — bread scattered on the mountains, gathered and made one. Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians, on Friday, names the barrier itself: "the barrier of hostility that kept us apart." Saint Ambrose asks us to throw open the gate of the heart . And on Saturday, Saint Benedict's Rule gives the practical form this gathering takes: a community bound together by putting Christ before everything. The thread is unity — not the absence of difference, but the deliberate, costly work of staying gathered, staying open, staying one. Gathered Together Saint Clement of Rome, writing to a Corinthian church that had split into factions, opens the week's Office of Readings on Monday with the question underneath everything that follows: "Why do…
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