Jesus clears the temple

We read

Matthew 21, 12-17  

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased, and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

We pray

Dear Jesus, help me to ‘Spring Clean’ my heart by throwing out all the bad thoughts, forgive me when I am wrong and to make my heart clean as we journey towards Easter. Amen  

We live

Jesus was angry because the people were using the house of God in a bad way. Do you think Jesus is always happy with our behaviour in church? 

Today we give our time to God, we go to church and spend time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, we also ask Jesus to forgive us for the times we misbehaved in church. 

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