What kind of community, city or world would we create? And what of God’s designs? Here’s today’s reflection from the daily Mass.
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Plans to build Wales’s tallest building were given the go ahead last week.
Standing 110m high, the 50-storey building will be the second tallest building in the UK outside of London, and part of the Central Square development next to Central Station, the BBC studios and the Principality Stadium. Cities never stand still. They are always being redeveloped, rebuilt, growing upwards and outwards.
The prophet Isaiah unveils God’s masterplan for creating a new heaven and a new earth. “Be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.” He talks of a city with no weeping or distress, where there are houses to live in, space for food to be grown, and where vineyards are fruitful. There will be life for all. It is a world transformed from mourning into dancing, when nighttime tears give way to joy at dawn.
If we created our own masterplan for our local communities or city, or wrote our own manifesto for our country, or even our designs and desires for the whole world, what would it contain? How would we start? What vision would we have? And how would it compare to God’s designs? We may think that we are in an impossible situation to achieve any change for the good. But we can begin where we are, working with one another and, as St Paul says, as “co-workers of Christ.” To use more of his imagery, as members of the church, we are part of a building with Christ as the cornerstone, we are God’s household. We are temples of the spirit. We are God’s garden. That may be enough building metaphors to get us started—after all, Christ has already laid the foundations.
Mass today is at S Dyfrig and S Samson Church at 6.30pm
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