Chapter IX
The Omnipresence of Christ
Omnipresence — being wholly present everywhere at once, without division or diminishment — is not a creaturely attribute; even the holiest angel or saint is present in only one place at a time. Jesus claims this attribute of Himself in two deliberately universal promises. To His Church gathered for prayer and discipline, however small the gathering, He promises: “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20) — not symbolically remembered, but personally present, in every such gathering, in every place, simultaneously. And in the Great Commission, His final promise extends across both space and time: “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20). This is the theological ground of the Church's confidence that Christ is truly present in the Liturgy and in the Eucharist celebrated simultaneously in countless churches across the world — a confidence that presupposes exactly the attribute claimed in these two verses.