Oh how I love to be in Church worshipping my Lord, my God!
But it was not always so…. I use to attend out of obligation and so was often distracted either in thought, word and deed. We among friends, talked, joked and laughed before, during and after mass albeit softly thinking no one heard or cared. It was easy to look at others and judge them by their appearance or to attend mass to see and be seen. I’d sing if I felt like it but would always be a little more reverent at the consecration though not fully understanding why.
I am indeed saddened to think that years had past by before I finally awoke to the rich and glorious splendour of the liturgy and to be worshipping as one in our One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. To know without reservation that I am among my brethren worshipping our ever present and living God.
To be able to rid myself of all evil and to be cleansed through the Sacrament of Reconciliation so as to receive my Lord Jesus through Holy Communion so as to be a living tabernacle within my body, the temple of the Holy Spirit. I am one with my Church as my Church is one with me. And with Jesus in me, living waters of His Love and Peace can flow; fruitful and abundant. O Lord, my God, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Amen
READING
Ezekiel 47:1–2, 8–9, 12
GOSPEL
John 2:13–22
Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money–changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money–changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty–six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
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