Archbasilica of St John Lateran
The full name of the church is: Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist at the Lateran. It is the Cathedral of the Diocese of Rome.
The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, as a feast of the Lord, takes precedence over the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, Ireland, New Zealand)
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Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA)
Gospel John 2:13-22 (English Standard Version, Anglicised)
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, ‘Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’
So the Jews said to him, ‘What sign do you show us for doing these things?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Léachtaí i nGaeilge
Christ driving the money-changers from the Temple
And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and oxen (John 2:15; Gospel).
This Sunday we celebrate the dedication of the Cathedral of Rome. In a real sense it is the Mother Church for Catholics.
In a homily in Spain on 3 November 1982 Pope St John Paul II said: Any church is your house, and the house of God. Value it as the place where we encounter our common Father. For most of us the church where first we were able to encounter our common Father was the church or chapel where our parents and godparents brought us to be baptised. The First Reading, from the Prophet Ezekiel, which speaks of the life-giving waters flowing out from the Temple, reminds us of the waters of baptism which cleanse away sin and give us the life of God himself. The response to the psalm reflects this: The waters of a river give joy to God’s city, the holy place, the abode of the Most High.
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