Third Sunday of Lent (March 15, 2009)
Today the Church gives us the choice of two different readings, so it is possible that you heard the reading about the woman of Samaria. In my parish they used the reading about the temple being used as a market place, therefore I will use this reading as the topic for this step.
Jesus gets upset when He arrives at the temple and he sees they are selling all kinds of things, so he overturns the tables and kicks them out. Then He is challenged to give a sign for his action. When He says “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up,” He is actually referring to His own body.
Our own bodies are “temples” and in this journey God is asking us to renew them. It is time to clean out our temples. All those things that we have been accumulating in the closet, is time to take them out and do some serious cleaning.
Lent is the perfect time to do this. Fasting, praying and almsgiving, helps us to see things in a whole different light. We need to take a look at all those things in our temple that we do not like, and throw them out. Once we do, we’ll be able to skip the rest of the way.
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