Gospel: Luke 19:45-48
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were
selling things, saying to them, “It is written, My house shall be a house of
prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” And every day he was teaching
in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the
people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death, but they could find no way
to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
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Reflection:
After cleaning the temple of impurities Jesus taught there daily, Jesus
is still teaching us up to this very minute. Teaching us how to properly live
our lives, teaching us that life is not so much of material and intellectual
accumulation. For Jesus life is service, life is humility, life is sacrifice,
life is about simplicity and the like.
What was Jesus everyday teaching topic during that time? We could
only guess that it was about behavior when inside the temple. And perhaps He
was also teaching them about life and how to properly live it. Is there a
template on how to properly live our life? Of course there is and it’s no other
than the life of Jesus himself. To live according to His life is the perfect
life template, but would we dare to live the life of Jesus?
Let us be teachers also like Jesus, let us teach our children about
Jesus, let us teach them how to behave at church. Let us teach the life of
Jesus by our way of life, if we say the life of Jesus we might be tempted to
say that His way of life is not anymore relevant in today’s technology and
internet driven times.
But the life of Jesus is more relevant today more than ever. Think of the
corruption of our value system, think of how we devalue life itself by killing
it while inside a mother’s womb. Jesus is a man for all season and for all
times. He is always relevant and His teachings also are always relevant
regardless of time, thus; we have to listen to HIM. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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