Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

The feast celebrates the Lateran Basilica as the “mother church” of Christianity: ecclesia omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput – of all the churches in the city and the world, the mother and head. The readings selected for the celebration are Ezekiel’s vision of a new temple and its flowing waters that renew all life and John’s account of Jesus cleansing the Jerusalem Temple. In the first reading it is the world that is cleansed. In the gospel it is the Temple itself. There is a lot going on in these readings.

Take a moment and consider all that Jesus’ parable has to offer.  Do it from the comfort of your back porch!

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