Gospel: November 9, 2025
November 9, 2025 (Sunday)
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Psalter: Proper / (White)
Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High.
1st Reading: Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17
Gospel: John 2:13-22
As the Passover of the Jews was at hand, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple court he found merchants selling oxen, sheep and doves, and money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple court, together with the oxen and sheep. He knocked over the tables of the money-changers, scattering the coins, and ordered the people selling doves, “Take all this away, and stop making a marketplace of my Father’s house!” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture: Zeal for your house devours me like fire. The Jews then questioned
Jesus, “Where are the miraculous signs which give you the right to do this?” And Jesus said, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then replied, “The building of this temple has already taken 46 years, and will you raise it up in three days?” Actually, Jesus was referring to the temple of his body. Only when he had risen from the dead did his disciples remember these words; then they believed both the Scripture and the words Jesus had spoken.
Lectio Divina:
“You are God’s building.”
Read: Ezekiel has a vision of water flowing from God’s temple, giving life. Saint Paul says that God dwells in us, and we are God’s temple. Jesus describes his body as the temple which will be destroyed and rebuilt for our salvation.
Reflect: Saint Paul tells us, “You are God’s building.” The people are more important than the bricks and mortar, but our churches are treated with respect because they are consecrated to God, and because they are the central place in which the community of faith gathers to pray. So we have a church building because first of all we are a living church united in the Catholic faith. If we are living stones, what binds us together? Our baptism—professing the one faith in Jesus. It is through the Mass, the sacraments and prayer that we become the living stones making up a spiritual temple of praise. On this feast of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, the mother church, and the symbol of the Church’s unity, let us celebrate our being Church, and rejoice in the blessings we receive from God mediated by his Church.
Pray: Pray for the Pope and for the unity of the Church.
Act: Is there something you could do to help your local church?
