DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Liturgical readings Friday, November 20, 2015
Part 1: 1Mak 4: 36-37.52-59
At that time Judas Maccabee and his brothers said, "Our enemy is destroyed. Let us go to purify the Temple
and ordained him back. "When all the army assembled them on their way to Mount Zion. In the year 148, on the twenty-fifth month of the 9th,
namely the month of Kislev, early in the morning all the people wake up to make offerings in accordance with the law upon the new altar of burnt offering they have made. Right at the same time and date as when strangers defile the altar was consecrated with hymns accompanied with lute, harp and cymbals. Then bent down and worshiped all the people, and toss compliments to Heaven, to the One who gave them a good result. Eight days celebration of the dedication of the altar was held. Joyfully sacrificed burnt offerings, sacrifices safety and sacrifice of praise. The front of the temple is decorated with essays and plays the golden-play. Gates and all the refurbished hall and doors fitted him. All the people filled with joy enormous. Because humiliation brought strangers that was erased. Judas and his brothers and all the congregation of Israel
set as follows, 'The celebration of the dedication of the altar every year to be held with the joy and excitement of eight days, in time, begin the twenty-fifth month of Kislev.'
Thus saith the Lord.

Psalm: 1Ch 29: 10-12d
O Lord, we praise thy glorious name.
* Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
* O Lord, belongs thy greatness and glory, honor, fame and glory, yes owned thy everything in the heavens and on earth, O Lord, thy kingdom belongs. * You are the highest exceeds everything. In your hand the power and glory, in your hand the power to expand and strengthen the kingdom.

Introduction to the Gospel of John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, saith the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.

Gospel: Luke 19: 45-48
At that time Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. Then began to drive all the traders there. He said, "It is written, My house is a house of prayer. But you have made it a den of robbers!" Each day Jesus was teaching in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the leading men of the nation of Israel sought to destroy Jesus. but they do not know how to do it, because all the people hung Him
and want to listen to him.
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Afterthought
The temple is a sacred place where many people come to offer sacrifices to God and listen to His teachings as written in the Law. Ironically, it is precisely the temple into a den of thieves where people trade with high prices for personal gain. Even crazier, the temple became a place for the enemies of Jesus to devise an evil plan to kill him. Anger of Jesus we hear in today's Gospel shows that Jesus is truly maintain the sanctity of the temple, where the Father is. "My house is a house of prayer" where everyone should stay and purify themselves before God. Purify themselves become the main and important thing when we want fellowship and follow God.
The temple should be the center of life that helps us drain sanctity. Then the temple as what can we find today? Many people call the church or place of worship was a temple. It is not wrong because the Church drain the sanctity that comes from the Holy Spirit. But there is one temple Its proximity to us, ie the liver. The liver is the temple of our closest but we rarely pay attention to it. Therefore, to be personally holy should we shall need to look at the heart. We learn cleanse our hearts and cleanse especially through the sacrament of Penance. The liver is the central seyiap things out of ourselves. Let's look deeper into our hearts, whether our hearts are already draining something sacred in our daily lives.

Item reflection
Hearts that have been fertile and faithful with gratitude and forgiveness, easier to maintain the quality of purity of heart. Such liver usually filled with joy and peace. He is not greedy and arbitrary persecution against his neighbor. When he prays, he can pray with calm and serene. In contrast to the greedy, vindictive and avenger, he often invaded rumbling hatred and emotions very labil.karenanya very difficult to pray. Let us repent and let Jesus by the power of His love repel soiling our hearts with His mercy. Undoubtedly this will be the heart of the temple were decent and clean. Blessed are the pure in heart, because it will see God.

Prayer
Lord Jesus, give us the ability to maintain the purity of the heart according to the example of Thy Holy Hat, Amen.