Today's meditation: eschatological nature of the pilgrim Church

The Church, to whom we are all called in Christ Jesus and in whom through the grace of God we acquire holiness, will have its fulfillment only in the glory of heaven, when the time of the restoration of all things will come and together with humanity also all creation, which is intimately united with man and through him reaches his end, will be perfectly restored in Christ.
Indeed, Christ, raised from the earth, attracted all to himself; risen from the dead, he sent his life-giving Spirit to the disciples and through him he constituted his body, the Church, as the universal sacrament of salvation; seated at the right hand of the Father, he works unceasingly in the world to lead men to the Church and through it unite them more intimately to himself and make them partakers of his glorious life by nourishing them with his Body and his Blood.
So the promised restoration, which we await, has already begun in Christ, is carried forward with the sending of the Holy Spirit and continues through him in the Church, in which through faith we are also instructed on the meaning of our temporal life, while in the hope of future goods, let us complete the mission entrusted to us in the world by the Father and realize our salvation.
So the end of time has already arrived for us and cosmic renewal has been irrevocably established and in a certain real way it is anticipated in the current phase: in fact the Church already on earth is adorned with true holiness, even if imperfect.
However, as long as there are no new heavens and new earth, in which justice will have a permanent home, the pilgrim Church, in its sacraments and institutions, which belong to the present time, carries the passing image of this world and lives among the creatures that moan and suffer so far in labor pains and await the revelation of the children of God.