Tuesday, August 02, 2011
The Cleansing of the Temple
Dear Friends,
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And he said to them, “It is written: ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of thieves.” The blind and the lame approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; and have you never read the text, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nurslings you have brought forth praise’?” And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and there he spent the night. (Passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew 21:12-17)
I went to the Manor yesterday afternoon to celebrate Holy Mass with the seniors and many of them came to the chapel. At the end of the Mass I visited those who could not come but had to stay in their rooms. Again I would like to let you know that I will have a Healing Mass on Friday, August 5, at 7:30 p.m. with the rosary at 7:00 p.m. And I will have an English retreat at the Little Shrine of Our Lady starting on August 16 at 2:00 p.m. and finishing on August 18 at noon.
Below you will find the message of Our Lord and Savior given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
“I greet you and bless you, My dear brother Melvin, and all My dear brothers and sisters living all over the world. If you are My followers you will go to church every Sunday and participate in the celebration of the Eucharist. You will also have respect for My Church and you will know that I am present in the tabernacle of your church. The church is not a place to carry on a conversation and to sit together and joke. No, it is a place of prayer and silence. I was not happy when I went to the temple in Jerusalem and found that they had turned it into a market. I drove out those who were selling and told them that the temple was a house of prayer. My just anger flared up at them. I would do the same thing in many churches today because many people have no respect for the house of prayer. I ask all of you to kneel and to show respect for Me. I love you.”
Father Melvin