「And He said to them,

　"It is written,

　'My house shall be called a house of prayer,'

　but you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "」Amen.

　This week is Passion Week. Tracing the last week before Jesus' crucifixion, we find that on Saturday, he arrived in Bethany, about 3 km north of Jerusalem. Then, on Sunday, he made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. This day is called "Palm Sunday" The people expected him to be the king of Jewish liberation, but he entered the city not on a warhorse but on a donkey as a king of peace. And on Monday, he expressed his anger against the high priest who was raging in the Temple garden, driving him out and cleansing the Temple.

　May we meditate on the Way of the Cross today....