DGEMs

Cleansing of Temple: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaimed, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days, I will raise it up.”  He was speaking about His Death and Resurrection.  Are we willing to die to our sins daily, so that we can “rise” and live more fully in the light of Jesus’ Truth, Love and Mercy?

When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there. 

      Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over and said to the dove sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop using my Father's house as a market.’ 

      Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us that you should act like this?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’