Homily (Reflection) for Friday of the
Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time (II) (23rd November, 2018) on the
Gospel
Rev 10:8-11;
Ps 118:14.24.72.103.111.131. (R. v.103);
Lk 19:45-48.
Topic: You are a marked temple.
Jesus entered the temple in today’s gospel and drove out
those selling things in the temple. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house
shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.”
The Jews were extorting so much money from the pilgrims. As a
result of the material gain, they turned the temple into a den of robbers
contrary to the divine decree.
In John’s account of Jesus’ cleaning of the temple, when the
Jews demanded for a sign, Jesus said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up” (Jn 2:19).
They were shocked because the temple had been under construction for forty-six
years. However, He was speaking about His body, cf. Jn 2:20-21.
Jesus’ cleansing of a temple made by human hands in today’s
gospel ought to bring our minds to real temples made by God Himself. Saint Paul
queried, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within
you, which you have from God? You are not your own” (1Cor 6:19). Again, “...we are the temple of the living God; as God
said, ‘I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people’” (2Cor 6:16).
He sternly warned, “If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For
God's temple is holy, and that temple you are” (1Cor 3:17). The pertinent question each of us must answer is, ‘What
do you do with your temple?’
Bible Reading: 1Cor 6:12-20; 2Cor 6:14–7:1.
Thought for today: You are God’s temple.
Let us pray: God give us the grace always to be
aware that our body is sacred and the grace to keep it holy as we ought – Amen.
You are free to share this reflection with
others if you consider it worthy.
For more
homilies (reflections):
Join our WhatsApp Group via: +234 810 298 6313
To Contact and/or to support this ministry:
Tel: +234 813 305 0302
May God bless you all+
No comments:
Post a Comment