"Faithful to God" - Fr. Joseph Dao Nguyen Vu | Third Sunday of Lent (March 3, 2024)
"Faithful to God"
Fr. Joseph Dao Nguyen Vu
Third Sunday of Lent (March 3, 2024)
Homily by Fr. Joseph Dao Nguyen Vu, the Vicar for Pastoral Care for Foreigners in the Archdiocese of Saigon, on the Third Sunday of Lent (Mach 3, 2024), at 9:30 AM at the Cathedral of Saigon.
March 3, 2024
Third Sunday of Lent - Year B
Gospel: Jn 2:13-25
Since the Passover of the Jews was near,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
as well as the money changers seated there.
He made a whip out of cords
and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen,
and spilled the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said,
“Take these out of here,
and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”
His disciples recalled the words of Scripture,
Zeal for your house will consume me.
At this the Jews answered and said to him,
“What sign can you show us for doing this?”
Jesus answered and said to them,
“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews said,
“This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,
and you will raise it up in three days?”
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead,
his disciples remembered that he had said this,
and they came to believe the Scripture
and the word Jesus had spoken.
While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover,
many began to believe in his name
when they saw the signs he was doing.
But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all,
and did not need anyone to testify about human nature.
He himself understood it well.
*United States Conference of Catholic
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