Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Gospel – John 2:13-22
“But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.”. Our body is also a sanctuary as St. Paul says. We have inside us the life of Christ which we have received in the sacrament of baptism. It’s our vocation to make it into His Father’s house. For this we must take out of my heart, all that make it a market. The activities of my heart which transforms everything into business relations where my primary aim is my profit. Whenever I think what I gain from this, I am setting up my market. Whenever I think how I can use this occasion to grow in the divine life I have in me, I am making my heart into Father’s house. Jesus wants to purify us from the market principles and wants to strength us with the three days’ principle. The principle of cross. The principle which asks us to give up everything for the other. That is the principle which makes our heart fully into the Father’s house.