We see the Temple as a symbol of passing things.  What was once in splendor now is gone.  Everything we see will pass.  A truth difficult to accept.  The world, and we ourselves, will pass from it one day.  but, although one world ends, another begins.  Jesus comes to inaugurate the Kingdom, the in-breaking of the age of the Church, even as the old was coming to its end.

Father’s Homily – video

Father’s Homily – text

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