spring cleaning?
Passing sections of the corridors, on Sunday morning, I come across someone who is always cleaning up his room: armored gate and window wide open, what can you move out of crowded, water, detergent and hand tools ...
If a room is uninhabited for a long time or if it's just been the subject of work, you have to reckon with not a little work to make it habitable. Even more so if the room is occupied, serving the cooperation of residents, the determination to do a good job and a willingness to stay out until everything is in place. But if the room has been left to go nell'incuria, if the dirt has accumulated in the far corners, and if were hidden under a false scale upholstery to give a semblance of minimum hygiene .. well, then the job is definitely difficult. But we must not linger: we need to make a clean sweep.
is: a starting point for reflection that I find in today's Gospel is that Jesus' desire to cleaning, to remove the merchants and money changers from the Temple, with a strong and determined action. Yet vendors and merchants were not illegal: in fact, under the Law of Moses, it was necessary that there were to allow anyone to obey the requirements of worship. Jesus, in fact, does not want to punish anyone but to reveal to everyone from now on if anyone wants to meet God, to render worship to the full, talk and he answered and a Word of salvation and mercy, it must do - as we say every time in the Mass - "through Christ, with Christ and in Christ." Leaving a faith of their outward appearance only, and point straight to the heart of Revelation, let go of so many (too many?) Words and listen to the word "Jews demand signs, Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. " The sign is already before our eyes: we may not be entirely welcome because it puts a demand for conversion and renewal, but it exists. The "power and wisdom of God" already living among us, just love her accommodate. By cleaning inside the house that is life, what is profane to me, I dirty? What are the merchants that I have to hunt out of my life so that we can truly accept the Lord, strength and wisdom? I am very willing to remove the unnecessary bulk and let the Lord - my collaboration with - it makes the cleaning of my life, possibly painful, but necessary and profound?
TEMPLE AND BODY
"He spoke of the temple of his body." Among the "forty-six years" and "three days", we already know, Jesus chose the three days. And his three days are worth a lifetime: "When he was raised from the dead [the third day], his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word spoken by Jesus. " Three days for the temple / body of Jesus became the meeting place for all people with the living God, the place of salvation and reconciliation between God and man and mankind. We can not forget that Jesus called body / temple the same body, which he truly and completely assumed that because he was a "sign" as sought by men, a body that gave you more than once and for all the logic of 'market', a "weakness" that reveals "the strongest of men." This reminds us of responsibility as we use our body? hands, eyes, mouth ...? Our hearts and minds? What "sign" is our body, what is this? As a gift, hospitality, mercy? Of oppression, violence, selfishness? Caring is a sign of respect or vanity? We care not only health but also the sanctity of our body? Or is it just something to enjoy and as long as possible?. Asked ... not just Jesus, who "knows [ed] what was in man" will help us find answers worthy of our humanity: it is so marked by the wounds of sin and guilt but is no less sacred and precious , in the eyes of God
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