Saturday, 9th November, Dedication of St. John Lateran, Feast

John 2:13-22

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and
the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all
of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out
the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who
were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s
house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for
your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show
us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under
construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But
he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead,
his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture
and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Reflection

How do I treat the church?

Do I always show respect to church by dressing properly and
behaving properly?