diff --git a/2024_homilies.txt b/2024_homilies.txt index 090a91c..06bac55 100644 --- a/2024_homilies.txt +++ b/2024_homilies.txt @@ -1,5 +1,36 @@ 2024 Homilies +3-03 +1. +The temple was built on a mountain. + +There were many roads that led up to it, and quite a few gates to enter the temple compound. + +Along the main road leading to the temple, was a marketplace, where money changers and merchants sold things related to the temple: animals and cereals for offerings, garments, and of course the money changers to trade the various currencies people would bring from far off lands. + +Some scripture scholars surmise that this market road would spill into the temple compound on occassion, and this is probably what had happened in our Gospel. + +There were too many sellers, not enough room along the street, and so they set up shop in the temple compound. A place for prayer, was overcome with business. + +And so Jesus took his time, plated a whip, and when the moment was right, he drove them out. Zeal for God's house, consumed Him. +2. +Zeal is love in action. + +Zeal is the action of a lover towards their beloved. + +The Trinity is a community of love, and so in the Gospel we saw the love of the Son for the Father. + +That love consumed Him, and thus He cleaned His Father's house. +3. +It is a good thing for us, to ask God to help us love Him. + +To pray daily, that He may make us love Him. + +To beg for the gift, of a deep and abiding love. + +That zeal for His house, may also consume us. + + 2-25 In our first reading: