3 Mar 2024
Cleanse Our Hearts
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For 3 March 2024, The Third Sunday of Lent, based on John 2:13-25
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Peggy
04 March 2024 @ 1:53 am
Thank you Mary Erika.
Brigid Cannon, OP
04 March 2024 @ 3:30 am
So grateful for your reflections on “righteous anger” and the need that Jesus shows us by his words and actions. In these days of our lives we, too, need to raise our voices and speak the truth in love to others with the injustices of disrespect of woman and children trafficking, the death penalty, war and killing of innocent lives especially children, the poor who do not have what they need to live a healthy life, racism, and the harm done to indigenous peoples and so much more. You shared so well, when you said, “we must stand against what desecrates our lives and stand for what is sacred in our lives.”
Blessings on your continued preaching,
Brigid Cannon, OP