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Lectionary Reflection, 3rd Sunday in Lent, Year B
March 8, 2015
Lest we think this week’s gospel reading has nothing to do with us in 21st century western Christendom, it would be wise to consider what moneychangers exist in our modern congregational edifices. What currency must be exchanged in order to “rightly” worship and enter the community today? (Photo: Luca Giordano, Wikimedia Commons)

Marketplace or Holy Space?

Lectionary Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent March 11, 2012 He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!’ — John 2:16 Are you familiar with this story? Jesus goes up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover and ends up cleaning house […]