Jesus, he said, has “an issue with money because redemption is free; it is God’s free gift, He comes to bring us the all-encompassing gratuity of God’s love.” So when a church or a parish start doing business it’s like saying that salvation is no longer free, the Pope explained, which is why Jesus takes his whip out in order to purify the temple of the corrupt. He noted how the feast of the day commemorates the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple, saying that Mary enters the temple as a young, simple woman like Hannah, and prayed that she would help keep God’s temple pure. “May she teach all of us, pastors and those who have pastoral responsibility, to keep the Temple clean, to receive with love those who come, as if each one were the Blessed Virgin.” Elise Harris, CNA
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:01:41 +0000
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