NOTES for Eph 3:20-21

It is not surprising that the main activity of the Church, according to Paul's words, is the glorification of God through Jesus Christ. But what it really means? And what is in general the glorification, which was known to the people of God several centuries before the arrival of Christ? Is it the witness of faithfulness to God? Is it story to the world about His greatness? Of course and this also. But the story about God and the witness of the faithfulness to Him are only a consequence. And where is thus the base? God from the beginning wanted to see His people as a people-community. And of course the divine service had to be the spiritual center of the life of the community. But indeed, the divine service had never been an only human affair, God always participated in it, and not only in the sense that by His presence He blessed and sanctified the assembly of the faithful.

The divine service was even always inseparable of the sanctification of the world, in which the people of God lived. This sacred space, where takes place God's meeting with the community of the faithful, changes completely really the world, by making it different, not such as it was before. Of course it did not come to talk about the sanctification and the transformation of all the creation before the arrival of the Christ, but the presence itself in the world of the sacred space, as an alternative of the existing of the non transformed order of things, changed fundamentally the spiritual situation in it.

And with the coming of Christ it changed even more, changed fundamentally: because with His coming, into the world also entered the Kingdom, so now the prospect of the full transformation of the creation becomes completely real. But now also one of the main tools of God's action in the world remains the divine service, only that now it is for the Church inconceivable without the participation of the Risen One. His presence becomes a major theophany, completeness surpassing all which was before. And God is now glorified in Him through His Church. Because it is particularly like that the world is attached to the Kingdom, finding in it its salvation.