The City of God

The realm of God is a pilgrim destination. It is a vision of diverse cultures living in peace and justice, in the urban realities of our world. It is an eternal city where God is fully with the people. Not yet, but coming. Not here, but just over the horizon.

St. Augustine\'s prose became traveling song for thousands of pilgrims over the centuries:

And now we watch and struggle,
  And now we live in hope;
And Sion in her anguish
  With Babylon must cope.

But he whom now we trust in
  Shall then be seen and known,
And they that know and see him
  Shall have him for their own.

(Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, tr. J.M. Neale)