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Coffee With God

Reflection: Luke 20:27-40 Today’s Gospel passage offers us a teaching on the resurrection of the dead. In this month of November, we pray especially for the dead. Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and therefore their attempt is to provoke Jesus with a deceptive question. A woman, who has had seven successive husbands, would […]

Saturday November 20

Thirty-Third Week In Ordinary Time THE GOD OF THE LIVING                                                                    Introduction       We are told in the first reading about the end of King Antiochus IV. After he had failed to rob the temple of Artemis in Mesopotamia and heard about the restoration of Jerusalem and its Temple, he died in discouragement.        “God is […]

CLEANSING THE TEMPLE

November 19, Friday Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time         After his first military victories over the Syrians, Judas Maccabeus wanted to restore legitimate worship. He had the desecrated Temple cleansed and consecrated anew, rebuilt the altar, and offered the sacrifice in accordance with the Law.       Jesus drove out the merchants from the Temple and […]

Coffee With God

  Reflection: Luke 19: 45-48 The temple of Jerusalem made of stones expressed the religious structure of Israel. In the minds of people, generally the Temple was the focal point and physical embodiment of their whole religious and cultural system. To attack the Temple was to do violence against Israel and to attack God. By […]

Friday November 19

Thirty-Third Week In Ordinary Time CLEANSING THE TEMPLE                                                             Introduction       After his first military victories over the Syrians, Judas Maccabeus wanted to restore legitimate worship. He had the desecrated Temple cleansed and consecrated anew, rebuilt the altar, and offered the sacrifice in accordance with the Law.       Jesus drove out the merchants from the Temple […]

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