Reflections – Page 2121 – Breaking the Word

11.03.2012 TEMPLE

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GOSPEL READING: JOHN 2:13-25

All the Jews went up to Jerusalem. Every Jew was expected to go to Jerusalem three times a year (for the feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Booths). These three feasts are feasts of harvest (of Barley, Wheat, and fruits). Jerusalem Is the only place where God dwells and every male came to meet the Lord with grateful hearts. Jesus also went to Jerusalem to meet the Lord (with grateful heart).

Instead of experiencing the Lord with grateful hearts (in the Temple) Jesus found a marketplace. Marketplace is an area where one finds material things and business with money and there is no place for God. Temple instead of being a place of God experience has become a place of earthly, material experience.

Jesus wanted this temple (material, earthly place) to be destroyed. His own body (in return the body of the followers) will become the temple of God. God will be experienced in persons and people. Resurrection is the only proof that the body is the temple of God. Every person who has the experience of the risen Lord will be the temple of God (even here on the earth).

நற்செய்திவாசகம்: யோவான் 2: 13-25

எருசலேம் கோவில் கடவுளின் திருத்தலம். கடவுள் குடியிருக்கும் இடம். இறைவனை சந்திக்க இறைவனுக்கு நன்றி செலுத்த ஒவ்வொரு இஸ்ராயேலனும் ஆண்டுக்கு மூன்று முறை செல்ல வேண்டும் (ஒரு முறையாவது கண்டிப்பாகச் செல்ல வேண்டும்). ஆனால் கோவில் கடவுளை இழந்து பொருள்களைக் கொண்டு ஒரு சந்தையாக மாறிவிட்டது. தனது உடலையே கோவிலாக கொண்டு உயிர்ப்பையே அதற்கு அடையாளமாக இயேசு போதிக்கிறார். இயேசுவில் உயிர்ப்பு அனுபவம் பெற்ற ஒவ்வொருவருமே இறைவனின் திருத்தலம்.

10.03.2012 FATHER CELEBRATES

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GOSPEL READING: LUKE 15:1-3, 11-32

Father, in the parable, is a wealthy man. He has property, he has workers under him and the house is ever ready for a celebration. He respects the feeling of his sons. He knows that the sons have their freedom even to go away from him (with a part of the property that belonged to him/ his due). Even though he respects the freedom he does not abandon his son. He is ever ready to get him back, provided the son chooses freely, on his own to come back to him.

The eldest son is a faithful man. He is disciplined so to say to obey the customs of the family yet he cannot adjust to the situations of the others. According to him what is right is right and the situation of the other is not taken into consideration. He is righteous but irreconcilable.

The youngest son is a spendthrift. Life is for him the present moment only; not the past for he does not care for his father; not the future for he never cared for it. He is ever ready for reconciliation. He is ready even to come down to the level of a slave. He accepts his limitations and failures.

The father celebrates the return of the son. He does not worry about the past of his son and he wants the elder son also to join in the celebration rather than judging the past. The father celebrates.

நற்செய்திவாசகம்: லூக்கா 15:1-3> 11-32

தந்தை பிள்ளைகளை மதிக்கிறார். அவர்களது உரிமையை மதிக்கிறார். அவர்களை தங்களது விருப்பத்திற்கேற்ப வாழவிடுகிறார். ஆனால் எல்லாரும் ஒன்றித்திருப்பதையே விரும்புகிறார். ஒன்றிப்பு கொண்டாடப்படவேண்டிய ஒன்று. ஒன்றிப்பு அதிலும் உறவில் ஒன்றிப்பு ஒரு விழா போன்றது.