11.08.14

Lectio: Jn 2.13-22                                                

Meditatio: "His disciples recalled the words of scripture, ‘ Zeal for my Father’s house will consume me’.”
Jn 2.17

Oratio: O God, You rook great delight in Your Son for His display of righteous anger because the merchants were making a marketplace out of the Temple area.

I remember He took cords and made a whip out of them and drove the merchants and the animals out ot the Temple area for His zeal for Your house consumed Him and properly so. In prayer seek to be always    respectfully both in words and deeds while in Church for there God dwells ;in a special way in the Tabernacle. And there He wants to be with us and we with Him.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "Zeal...consumed”; Jesus was properly angered over the way in which the merchants and money changers were using the Temple areas; and He showed His righteous anger by driving them out. Seek the grace to be always  aware that a church is the house of God. May we always show it the greatest respect.
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Tomorrow's reading: Lk 17.1-6