Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Jesus Cleansed Jerusalem’s Temple First. You’re Next…..

Your body is a Temple and Jesus wants you to drive the greed and self-love out of it this Lent. There is a lot going on beneath the surface in the cleansing of the Temple story we hear on the Third Sunday of Lent (Year B). Ultimately, though, it is meant to drive home the point that Lent demands a violent cleansing of your soul in order to aggressively restore it to its true purpose.