CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - CHRISTOPHER -3RD SUNDAY OF LENT-B
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Mo NguyenFri, Mar 5 at 2:17 PMTHIRD SUNDAY OF LENT – YEAR B
07th March 2021
LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
(John 2: 13-25)
BEING TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
Lent has the capacity to shake us from our lethargy and turn our lives upside down. For some people change is exciting but for many it is less than comfortable as we search to find our bearings in a new situation. Today’s readings can challenge us but they also provide a new set of bearings to help our journey in faith. The people of Israel had their world overturned when they were taken into slavery, but in some ways coming out of slavery was even more difficult. Led into the dangers of the desert and an uncertain future they were to find their bearings in the new covenant. Their new identity as God’s people would find its expression in their faithfulness to the Ten Commandments. When Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers in the Temple he called into question the system that had developed around the Temple. His disturbing action was to be a reminder that even as one sign of God’s presence was to pass away, it was soon to be replaced by a new sign of God’s presence, his own Risen body.
Paul knew that God’s wisdom always has a way of challenging the wisdom of the world. A crucified Christ was seen as madness and scandalous. As disturbing as it may still seem this is the wisdom of God that must become our point of reference. In Jesus crucified all our preconceptions of power and wisdom are called into question as we are invited to make God’s wisdom our own.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
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