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Friends, in today’s Gospel, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">the Jews ask Jesus for a sign, and he
blithely comments, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise
it up.” </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">One of the most startling claims that Jesus made about himself
is that the people of Israel should come to him for those goods that
they formerly sought in the temple: forgiveness, teaching, and healing</span></b>.
<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">And he confirmed this identification when<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> making this statement after
purifying the temple of the money changers.</span></span></b><br><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">The bystanders remark
on the absurdity of this claim, reminding him that the construction of
this Herodian version of the sacred place had taken forty-six years.
</span></b>The author of the Gospel provides the indispensable gloss:<b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> “But he was
speaking about the temple of his body.”</span></b> In a word, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus himself is the
very particular “place” where the God of Israel, who cannot <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">be contained
by the entire universe</span>, deigned in a unique and unrepeatable way to
dwell.</span></b><br><div><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">The temple known to</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus and his followers</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">would be
obliterated just forty years after the time of </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Christ</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">But the temple of
Jesus’ Body, the Church, will endure forever.</span></b></div><div>
<div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>Lábunk együtt
járjon, kezünk együtt gyűjtsön, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>szívünk együtt dobbanjon, bensőnk együtt
érezzen, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>elménk gondolata egy legyen, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>fülünk együtt figyeljen a
csöndességre, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>szemünk egymásba nézzen és tekintetünk összeforrjon, </span></span></b></i></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><i><b><span lang="hu"><span>ajkunk együtt könyörögjön az Örök Atyához irgalomért!</span></span> <br></b></i></span></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Amen</b></i></div>
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