Zeal for your House Consumes Me

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 March 2003

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In cleansing the temple and announcing its destruction, Jesus shows that he himself is the new temple, the authentic dwelling place of God on earth. In the measure that we are grafted onto him, we too become temples of the Holy Spirit.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic Cemetery's, serving the Chicago area since 1837, and FSP dedicated to food service excellence.
0:10.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.0	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of Love for each of us.
0:27.0	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, who we might speak with love about the one who is love.
0:35.0	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Linnica now presents the Word on Fire.
0:43.0	Peace be with you.
0:46.0	Friends, our Gospel reading for this third Sunday of Lent is taken from the second chapter of John's Gospel.
0:52.0	It's the story of the cleansing of the temple.
0:56.0	One of the most remarkable in the Gospel because Jesus seems to be acting so out of character.
1:01.0	In fact, this reading is cutting, I think, right to the heart of the Gospel message.
1:06.0	Let me read to you now a little bit from this passage.
1:11.0	As the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
1:16.0	In the temple precincts, he came upon people and gays and selling oxen sheep and doves and others seated changing coins.
1:24.0	He made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, sheep and oxen alike and knocked over the money changers tables spilling their coins.
1:35.0	He told those who were selling doves, get them out of here, stop turning my father's house into a marketplace.
1:45.0	To understand the meaning and power of this event, we have to understand what the temple meant to the Jews of Jesus' time.
1:55.0	It meant in a word, everything.
2:01.0	We tend to separate out the religious from the economic, from the political, from the cultural.
2:08.0	Ancient people did not.
2:10.0	If you went in the forum and ancient Rome, for example, well, the forum was filled with religious places, we call them, but also social, political, cultural institutions, and they were all mixed together.
2:20.0	They all were of a piece, the same with the Ariopagus in Athens.
2:25.0	The political, the social, the cultural, the religious were all of a piece.
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