Gospel of March 7, 2021

Gospel of March 7: It is very bad when the Church slips into this attitude of making the house of God a market. These words help us to reject the danger of making our soul, which is the abode of God, a market place, living in the continuous search for our own advantage instead of in generous and supportive love. (…) It is common, in fact, the temptation to take advantage of good activities, at times dutiful, to cultivate private, if not illegal, interests. (…) Therefore Jesus used “the hard way” that time to shake us out of this mortal danger. (Pope Francis Angelus March 4, 2018)

First Reading From the book of Exodus Ex 20,1: 17-XNUMX In those days, God spoke all these words: “I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the servile condition: You will have no other gods in front of me. You shall not make an idol for yourself or any image of what is in heaven above, or of what is on earth below, or of what is in the waters under the earth. You will not bow down to them and you will not serve them.

What Jesus says

Because I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, who punishes the guilt of fathers in children up to the third and fourth generation, for those who hate me, but who demonstrates his goodness up to a thousand generations, for those who they love me and keep my commandments. You will not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, because the Lord does not leave unpunished whoever takes his name in vain. Gospel of March 7th

Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it. Six days you will work and do all your work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord your God: you will not do any work, neither you nor your son or your daughter, nor your slave nor your slave, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who lives near you. Because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea and what is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You will not kill. You will not commit adultery. You will not steal. You will not bear false witness against your neighbor. You will not want your neighbor's home. You will not desire the wife of your neighbor, neither his slave nor his female slave, neither his ox nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor ».

The Gospel of Sunday day

Second Reading From the first letter of St Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1Cor 1,22-25 Brothers, while the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom, we instead announce Christ crucified: scandal for the Jews and foolishness for the pagans; but for those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. For what is foolishness of God is wiser than men, and what is weakness of God is stronger than men.

From the Gospel according to John 2,13: 25-XNUMX The Passover of the Jews was approaching and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found people in the temple selling oxen, sheep and doves and, sitting there, money changers. Then he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; he threw the money from the money changers on the ground and overturned the stalls, and to the dove sellers he said: "Take these things away from here and don't make my Father's house a market!" His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will devour me." Then the Jews spoke up and said to him, "What sign are you showing us to do these things?"

Gospel of March 7: What Jesus says

Gospel of March 7: Jesus answered them: "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said to him, "This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?" But he spoke of the temple of his body. When he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word Jesus spoke. While he was in Jerusalem for Passover, during the festival, many, seeing the signs that he was performing, believed in his name. But he, Jesus, did not trust them, because he knew everyone and did not need anyone to give witness about man. In fact, he knew what there is in man.