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 Meditation Daily                                   GOSPEL PASSAGE: JOHN 2:13
                        JESUS CLEANSING THE TEMPLE                      
In today’s gospel passage, we can see that the first public work in which we find Christ directly engaged was, driving out from the temple the traders who made god’s house a house of merchandise. Jesus practices his piety by going to the Jerusalem temple for Passover, and that was a Passover day. In the temple he finds what any pilgrim could expect to find during a festival: a place bustling with religious and economic activity. Jesus focuses, not on the cattle, sheep, and doves that were used for sacrifices, but on the activity of selling. St. Paul advises us whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. But here, Jesus recognizes that their activities were filled with selfish motives rather than the glory of God. They were more concerned with selling and buying and all other worldly affairs instead of attending the religious exercises. Their religious practices were merely for money making.

There is a story about Leonardo Davinci, after drawing the picture of ‘last supper’, he asked his intimate friend, “Which is the most attractive part in the picture?” The friend replied, that the whole picture was beautiful but the chalice in the hand of Jesus was more attractive. Immediately Davinci erased the chalice and told him “Jesus is the Centre of attraction in this picture, no other things should be there as attractive as Jesus and if there is, that should be removed. In the similar way Jesus also did in the temple of God. He overturned all things which were more attractive and given more importance than His Father.
Dear brothers and sisters, let us also try to overturn all things that are given more importance than God in our life, like Jesus did in the temple. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit for the grace to find and overturn the things which are given more importance than God in our life.
Thank you. Have a blessed day. 







                                                                                               Bro. Lijo George CMI
                                                                                 Dharmaram College Bengaluru

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