Saturday 9 November
John 2, 13-22:
“Don’t make my Father’s house into a marketplace.”
The contemporaries of Jesus had converted into a place of commerce what was meant to be a place of encounter with God.
Jesus does not support this situation and takes the opportunity to teach us what is the true temple of God.
And clearly tells us that the true temple of God is the heart of every human being.
And how many sellers of human beings do we find in our day!:
* We traffic the human person from the womb when we do not let it be born.
* We traffic children exploiting them in a thousand ways.
* We traffic women and man by depriving them of the most elementary and even their dignity as persons.
What would Jesus say and how would Jesus act given all this?.
You are today the mouth and hands of Jesus.
Shout loudly the cry of Jesus: “Don’t convert the house of my Father into a marketplace!”.
And also act accordingly.
Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
