Ecclesiasticus, 44, 1.9-13;
Sal 149;
Mc. 11, 11-26
Jesus and is in Jerusalem for his ascent to the Passover. Chronologically, this text corresponds to what happened following his triumphant entry into the holy city. 'After that people were critically acclaimed and went into Jerusalem in the temple and was watching everything ... ' points the evangelist. Returns to Bethany - a house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus resting place for Jesus in his visits to Jerusalem - to return every day to Jerusalem and the temple because of the proximity of these populations, about three kilometers and will be noted in John's Gospel .
what happened in the next few days we see some clear signs of the message that today we can deduce. On the one hand the curse of the fig tree then the next day the disciples would dry root. 'He saw from afar a fig tree with leaves, and came over to see if there was something, on arrival he found nothing but leaves, because it was the season for figs ...'
is not the act itself whether fig figs had or did not, it was not time for that, but it has come to mean. We may also recall a parable in this sense is provided in the gospel. Jesus looks for fruit, looking fruit in our lives, looking for fruit at the people of Israel whom God had so carefully and which now expressed the merciful love of God in Jesus. But Jesus found no fruit. The fruit that we give to God should give at all times. We can not say later, in another time and respond to what God asks me, I'll correct because even I have time ... The answer has to be prompt, struggle and effort to excel is up to each day. What will God do with us? perhaps we could ask.
Another clear sign of the message that Jesus wants to give us is the removal of vendors from the temple . 'Entering the temple began to drive the buying and selling in the temple ... Is it not written: My house is a house of prayer for all peoples? And instead you have become the den of thieves ... "
The house of God house of prayer, worship pure and clean that we have to offer to the Lord, the worship of the Lord away from every ritual and routine that is always looking for something alive born of the heart full of faith and love of man, the non-fraudulent use of holy things and of all religious action not to distort the true relationship with God. These are thoughts that come to boat early in the contemplation of the scene of the expulsion of the vendors from the temple. A sign of the cleansing that Jesus wanted to make that temple of the Lord but another sign of inner purification and deeper than you do in the heart man.
We have often thought how us from our baptism we are true abode of God and temples of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. Great is the dignity that God has given us has made us his children, but temples of God. Is not this then the cleansing of the temple of the Lord Jesus is calling, that purify our hearts to shine for the sanctity of life? I think that there should be our thoughts, ideas and commitments.
Finally, Jesus will ask us to really take hold of our faith. 'Take faith in God, 'says . And we talk about the power of prayer and faith. But we also talk of how we should purify our hearts when we always put us in prayer before God. 'When you pray, forgive what you have against others, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins' . It reminds us how to pray to the Lord's Prayer teaches us.
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