Today's Gospel November 9, 2020 with the words of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the book of the prophet Ezekiel
Ez 47,1: 2.8-9.12-XNUMX

In those days, [a man, whose appearance was like bronze,] led me to the entrance of the temple and I saw that under the threshold of the temple water came out towards the east, because the facade of the temple was towards the east. That water flowed under the right side of the temple, from the southern part of the altar. He led me out the north door and turned me out to the east facing outer door, and I saw water gushing from the right side.

He said to me: «These waters flow towards the eastern region, go down into the Arhab and enter the sea: flowing into the sea, they heal its waters. Every living being that moves wherever the torrent arrives will live: the fish will be abundant there, because where those waters reach, they heal, and where the torrent reaches everything will live again. Along the stream, on one bank and on the other, all sorts of fruit trees will grow, whose leaves will not wither: their fruits will not cease and every month they will ripen, because their waters flow from the sanctuary. Their fruits will serve as food and the leaves as medicine ».

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to John
Jn 2,13-22

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?" 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 be built, 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 believed in the Scripture and the word spoken by Jesus.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
We have here, according to the evangelist John, the first announcement of the death and resurrection of Christ: his body, destroyed on the cross by the violence of sin, will become in the Resurrection the place of the universal appointment between God and men. And the Risen Christ is precisely the place of the universal appointment - of all! - between God and men. For this reason his humanity is the true temple, where God reveals himself, speaks, lets himself be encountered. (Pope Francis, Angelus of 8 March 2015)