"Christ dwells in our churches so that we may easily come close to him, and once we have encountered him in these buildings, we ourselves are meant to become his temples. He wants to make us living sanctuaries and holy ground. What God longs for is not to dwell in the temples of stone, but to dwell in human hearts. The true temple of God is within.
Once we grasp this, Jesus' zealous cleansing of the temple takes on a new significance. It is our hearts that Christ wants to purify. He comes to drive out the greed, jealousy, anger, and lust. ..It is not pleasant to have the tables within in overturned. Yet is is absolutely essential, for we cannot be truly happy until we are made suitable dwelling places for the glory of the Lord and find him living within us."
- from Magnificat, November 2025
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple men selling oxen, sheep and doves, and money-changers at their tables. And making a kind of whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and oxen, and he poured out the money of the changers and overturned the tables. And to them who were selling the doves he said, Take these things away, and do not make the house of my Father a house of business. And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal for thy house has eaten me up.
- John 2:13-17
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