After Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He headed to the temple. When He arrived, He confronted and cast out those who had crowded the courts with corrupt commerce.
He overturned the money-changers tables, and flipped the seats of those selling animals for sacrifice.
No one should go to a religious service expecting to be robbed, coerced, or manipulated. Sadly this has become the stereotype that stains the perception of what the Church is. While many of these suspicions are unfounded, there are far too many cases where they are true.
Shame on us if we ever lose sight of why we gather. Shame on us if our sacred spaces become places that grieve the very Spirit that we invoke.
Jesus is coming. I pray that His visitation does not culminate in vexation.
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
It’s Holy Week!
Good Morning, I love you all!
ihs,
just adam
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