Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
November 9, 2025
REFLECTION ON TODAY'S READING
The Promise
"And I will raise him up on the last day" (Luke 11:26). Give thanks for all of our deceased brothers and sisters that the Church invites us to remember at the beginning of this day. Think of all those who are considering ending their days on earth because of the difficult situations they are going through. May the hope to which Mother Church invites you to, lead you to keep hope alive.
Entrust all the activities of this day to the Lord. Ask Him to accompany you at all times. As you open your heart and your eyes to life, may He give you the ability to bring life to those around you.
Pray the Daily Offering.
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The Gospel Reading, John 2:13-22
He spoke about the temple of his own body.
The story of the cleansing of the Temple is found in all four Gospels. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is upset with the deceitful practices of the vendors and expels them for that reason. But in John, Jesus' authority is contrasted with the authority of the Temple cult and is a criticism of the cult itself.
The story is composed of two parts, Jesus' action in the Temple and Jesus' predictions about the Temple's destruction. The time of year is the sacred feast of Passover. If the many pilgrims to Jerusalem during Passover were to have animals for the sacrificial rituals of the feast, it was necessary to sell cattle in the Temple and to change the unclean Roman money. By denouncing this, Jesus is cutting to the core of the Temple cult.
The story is really about Jesus' fate, not the Temple's fate, revealing that Jesus, not the Temple, is the locus of God's presence on earth. As they often do in John, the Jews misunderstand Jesus' words. This gives John the chance to explicitly state his point. Although this is the beginning of his ministry, Jesus is already speaking of his coming death and Resurrection.
John intentionally integrates a post-Resurrection perspective into the Gospel narrative. The statement that concludes this passage uses the fact of the Resurrection to prove the point of Jesus' words. Believers need to remember the words and actions of Jesus and claim them as affirmations of the truths of their faith.
Christians sometimes point to Jesus' anger in this passage as a way to point out Jesus' humanity. But this would miss the powerful point of the entire Gospel, that the Word became flesh. The point is not that Jesus' anger proves he is human. It is that a human being, in his words and actions, can claim the authority of God. s .
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A STEWARDSHIP MOMENT
In today’s reading from Saint Paul’s letter to the Christian community at Corinth, he suggests that we are all called to be “wise master builders” in the building up of God’s temple, the local Church. Each one of us has been given gifts to offer this building enterprise, and we are called to be good stewards of this project, to build this church together, in communion with one another, according to God’s plan, not ours. Jesus Christ is the solid foundation upon whom we are to build. Saint Paul further suggests that God will judge us according to the quality of our stewardship. Can we see ourselves as “master builders” of God’s church? What gifts are we using to construct this holy place that God will call home?
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