SECOND READING
Ephesians 3: 1-12
At first glance, it appears that the meaning of the mystery that Paul says was revealed to him is hardly a mystery at all—that Gentiles and Jews both share in God’s grace. (The word Gentile, of course, means any non-Jewish person.) But Paul means more, he means that the Church as an institution will consist of Jews and Gentiles. Christianity may have begun as a movement within Judaism, but the opened mystery reveals that Christianity has become something new, the Church, and the Church is unlimited, universal. Elsewhere Paul calls it, “the body of Christ.”
©Arthur H. Cash