How Lovely is Your Dwelling Place...
Bringing it into our context, Jesus will have the same reaction if he were here this very moment. He will be furious no longer for the physical temple, but for the spiritual temple -- our very selves. Many a times we have allowed ourselves to become a "place of vipers;" many times we have enslaved our very sacred bodies to sin. The Church teaches us that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, God's lovely dwelling place. But have we really exerted all effort to preserve the sanctity of our bodies? Or do we easily give in to the sins of the flesh?
So as we enter more deeply into the season of Lent, we can ask ourselves whether we do sanctify or desecrate our bodies, the temples of Jesus' Spirit. Lent is the right time for us to look back, reflect, and repent. If there is one invitation that Jesus would wish to extend to us, it is repentance -- contrite and sincere. Perhaps you are invited to go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) and receive the forgiveness of God...
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