+(Intro) Today’s feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica is a celebration of each one of our lives. We will hear as we did at Vigils of Jesus cleansing the temple which is to take place in our lives each day as we allow self-interests to yield to those of Christ.
(After the gospel) Each one of us is being called every day into a more living and loving relationship with Christ so as to be faithful members of his Body the Church. We are reminded in the writings of St Paul of how we are “God’s building”, the very “temple of God.” Nothing pleases God so much so as to fill each of us with divine life.
When this takes place the words of the prophet Ezekiel unfolds in our own time, salt waters are made fresh and not only every month but every day our lives bear fresh fruit. Those with whom we live are refreshed and together we form the Lord’s holy temple.
If we let Christ’s life become fully alive in us, we too will face opposition, but this is no cause for fear for in doing so the promise of eternal life is assured. The very death and rising of Christ take place in each of us until God’s holy temple is fully dedicated. And isn’t this what we celebrate each day in this Eucharist!
Ezek 47:1-2, 8-9,12; John 2:13-22