This is ‘Holy Week’ when we remember the miraculous things that Jesus did in the last week of His Life. It is linked with the Jewish Passover but the Hebrew Calendar differs from ours and the Jewish feast begins this year on 22nd April.

Today is Holy Monday, we remember Jesus' throwing all the money changers and vendors out of the Temple. The Temple in Jerusalem was the centre of worship for the Jews, God's presence strongly dwelt in the 'Most Holy of Holy Places' the inner sanctum of the Temple. The Jews were required to tithe and provide animals for sacrifice to the priests. But in today's Gospel Reading, we read how animal vendors, and money changers had actually set up booths in the Temple court, turning God's house into a market place. Jesus angry at this desecration, made a whip and drove them out, they were polluting God's home.

God's home today is within us his children, He comes and dwells with us and writes His law on our hearts – so our living bodies are his Temple. We can't all live as monks and hermits, most of us, must earn a living in the marketplaces of the world. Even the Apostle Paul did so, he was a tent maker and boasted that he earned his own living and did not take money from those to whom he ministered. Like Paul we need to do so without polluting our soul. How well are you doing at keeping it holy? Business owners, how ethical are your deals? Employee's, are you serving your employer as if serving the Lord? Paster have you allowed a cafe SELLING food/tea/coffee to set up in the foyer/hall of your Church (temple court)? If you can't afford to provide a tea or coffee after service free to your brothers and sisters in Christ, where has the blessing on your Church gone? I realIze Church buildings have a lot of expenses to cover but God has deep pockets!