Lc 19, 45-48
Aquel día, Jesús entró en el templo y comenzó a echar fuera a los que vendían y compraban allí, diciéndoles: "Está escrito: Mi casa es casa de oración; pero ustedes la han convertido en cueva de ladrones".
Jesús enseñaba todos los días en el templo. Por su parte, los sumos sacerdotes, los escribas y los jefes del pueblo, intentaban matarlo, pero no encontraban cómo hacerlo, porque todo el pueblo estaba pendiente de sus palabras.
Jesús enseñaba todos los días en el templo. Por su parte, los sumos sacerdotes, los escribas y los jefes del pueblo, intentaban matarlo, pero no encontraban cómo hacerlo, porque todo el pueblo estaba pendiente de sus palabras.
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GospelLK 19:45-48
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out
those who were selling things, saying to them,
“It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer,
but you have made it a den of thieves.”
And every day he was teaching in the temple area.
The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,
were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose
because all the people were hanging on his words.
those who were selling things, saying to them,
“It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer,
but you have made it a den of thieves.”
And every day he was teaching in the temple area.
The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,
were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose
because all the people were hanging on his words.
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Meditacion:
El evangelio de hoy es muy apropiado en un dia donde por aca se celebra el "black friday" que es como una fiesta al consumismo desenfrenado.
Las personas se levantan muy temprano, antes del amanecer, no a orar sino a hacer linea en los diferentes shopping para tratar de conseguir alguna oferta.
Visto desde mi realidad de monje y sacerdote, me alegra no necesitar tantas cosas.
Y digo que el evangelio de hoy es muy adecuado porque todos y cada uno de nosotros somos templos del Espiritu de Dios, esa chispa vital que anida en nosotros y que nos hace hijo directos de Dios.
Pero si llenamos nuestra vida de cosas materiales, comprando sin sentido, endeudandonos innecesariamente, llenandonos de malos sentimientos porque no logramos conseguir lo que necesitabamos, no somos mas que mercaderes del templo, envileciendo un espacio sagrado como debe ser nuestra vida.
No quiero ser aqui un terrorista de la sociedad, es bueno aprovechar las ventajas de la tecnologia pero de alli a estar en una busqueda permanente de lo que no necesitamos o usamos, eso esta mal.
Recordaba yo ayer que cuando era niño en mi pais, mi madre nos compraba tenis una vez al año y zapatos lo mismo; la ropa venia mas de primos y amigos que ya no la usaban que de la tienda y los juguetes eran los que me habian regalado.
Que diferencia hoy cuando a nuestros hijos no terminan de abrir la boca que ya les compramos lo que quieren, y nosotros suspiramos por un celular de ultima generacion o, sencillamente, nos creamos necesidades que no existen!
Cuanto me gustaria ver el mismo fervor en la visita al Santisimo o a la misa semanal!
“Dios, Padre nuestro, te pedimos humildemente que cuando nos busques nos encuentres congregados en tu santo templo, como verdadero pueblo de Dios reunido en el excelso Nombre de Jesús.” Amen
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The gospel of today is very appropriate in a day where "black friday" is celebrated here, which is like a celebration of unbridled consumerism.
People get up very early, before dawn, not to pray but to make line in different shopping to try to get some offer.
Seen from my reality as a monk and priest, I am happy not to need so many things.
And I say that the gospel of today is very appropriate because each and every one of us are temples of the Spirit of God, that vital spark that nests in us and that makes us direct children of God.
But if we fill our lives with material things, buying without meaning, indebted unnecessarily, filling us with bad feelings because we can not get what we need, we are nothing but merchants of the temple, debasing a sacred space as our life should be.
I do not want to be a terrorist of society here, it is good to take advantage of the technology but from there to be in a permanent search of what we do not need or use, that is wrong.
I remembered yesterday that when I was a child in my country, my mother bought us tennis once a year and shoes the same; the clothes came more from cousins and friends who no longer used it than from the store and the toys were the ones that they had given me.
What differentiates today when our children do not finish opening their mouths and we already buy them what they want, and we long for a cell phone of the last generation or, simply, we create needs that do not exist!
How much I would like to see the same fervor in the visit to the Santisimo or to the weekly mass!
"God, our Father, we humbly ask that when you seek us you find us gathered in your holy temple, as a true people of God gathered in the exalted Name of Jesus." Amen
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