Please read the passage before the commentary.
My sisters and brothers,
I have a question for you: “Where are we supposed to worship God, in Jerusalem or on a mountain in Samaria?” The answer Jesua gives is, “neither in Jerusalem nor in any other place.”
Today Jesus entered the Temple of Jerusalem. He came to take possession of his own house. The Temple was Jesus’ house. Jesus is the sprit of the truth that is God. Those who adore God in spirit and in truth are those who see Jesus as the Son of God. They are the ones who meet Jesus in the true Temple of God.
During this Lent, Jesus is destroying the false temples we have made of ourselves and building from us the true Temple of God. We are reminded that Jesus is the true Temple of God, and Christ, through our baptism, has made us members of this body of his.
Lent is the time to renew ourselves into the Temple of Jesus. Many years it took to build the Temple in Jerusalem. Through the celebration of Lent, Jesus is going to raise up the temple of his body in a few days.
In this Lent, God wants to lead us from the adoration of our own bodies to the veneration of the true God in spirit and in truth forever.
For us, there are witnesses. Several hundred non-baptized met our Archbishop this past Sunday. They committed themselves to receiving baptism at the Easter Vigil and are studying how to imitate the life of Christ. They are our witnesses.
What are we doing to imitate Christ better? Following Christ does not mean destroying our lives, but rather to have them rebuilt into being the house of God, the Temple of the Most High, the true body of Christ.