Carmelite homily for Lectionary 501 | Friday, November 22, 2019
This is a Re-Post from Saturday, November 9, 2019, because the Gospel that day was also the ‘Cleansing of the Temple.’
In today’s Gospel we have the ‘Cleansing of the Temple’ where Jesus overturned the money tables, and drove out the money changers and the animal handlers – to purify the Temple. I think Jesus does the same thing to this Temple, to our hearts, and our souls. And why? John of the Cross says, “The soul must empty itself of all that is not God in order to go to God.” With that in mind, let us ask Jesus to do to this Temple what he did to that Temple on that day.