[Sundaycommunity] JESUS DRIVES THE MERCHANTS OUT OF THE TEMPLE

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Roberto, do you remember when my birthday-mate, Mary Lou J-B, asked the
meaning of my "aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM" that I often append to my emails and posts?

"All praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ" is the first part of it.

A reminder mostly to me not to get too "full of myself".

That if anything especially good comes out of me, we can be pretty darn
sure that it wasn't FROM ME.  :)

That whenever I start thinking I am "pretty hot stuff", beware Brian!  You
should well know from past experience that a fall on your face may well be
just around the corner.

That's why I just happily copy from MV, just as MV happily copied from
what the people were saying in the visions that Jesus gave her, both of us
often not understanding what was being said or remembering it for long.
Just trying hard not to miscopy anything, lest we be responsible for
seriously misleading anyone.

Call us nothing but COPYCATS, if you will, but we hope and pray all of you
eventually recognize that we are trying to be HONEST, HELPFUL ones.  :)

aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:46 PM Roberto <urosma at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It is easy to conclude that this involvement with MV is part of your very
> personal joy. However, it is clear that this also is your very private,
> particular, peculiar joy and trying to impose  it to others, it is not
> needed or wanted specially because of the denunciation and invalidations of
> MV.
> It would be more meaningful to read your own beliefs, feelings and
> emotions of the Word, instead of the copies and pastes that have merit just
> for you. So please, stop the arbitrary copies and pastes and let us hear
> from you.
> Roberto
>
> On Mar 5, 2021, at 19:52, Brian Shaughnessy via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
> Part of Maria Valtorta's vision of what John has described.
> ________
>
> Jesus enters the enclosure of the Temple with six of His apostles.  There
> is a very large crowd both inside and outside.
>
> Inside, it is a real market.  The concentration of a holy place has been
> destroyed.  Shouting and cursing.  Near the benches of the money-changers,
> more bawling.
>
> No fixed rate of exchange.  Usury transactions!  The poorer the people or
> the farther they came from, the more they were fleeced.
>
> An old couple, man and wife, come back pushing a poor little lamb which
> must have been found faulty by the sacrificers.  They cried and begged the
> vendor, who replied with nasty words and rude manners.
>
> "Go away, you filthy lot.  Joseph the Elder is now coming here. God be
> with you, Joseph.  Come and make your choice."
>
> Joseph of Arimathea picks a magnificent lamb.  He passes by, stately and
> proud, magnificently dressed, without even looking at the poor people
> weeping at the gate.
>
> Jesus has also made His purchase, and Peter, who probably bargained for
> Him, is pulling a fairly good lamb.
>
> Peter would like to go at once to where they offer the sacrifice, but
> Jesus turns to the couple and asks:  "Why are you crying, woman?"
>
> She must think He is a doctor and is greatly surprised, because doctors
> and priests pay no attention to the poor, neither do they protect them from
> the stinginess of merchants.
>
> He addresses the lamb vendor:  "Change the lamb for these believers.  It
> is not worthy of the altar.  Neither is it fair that you should take
> advantage of two poor old people, only because they are weak and
> unprotected."
>
> "And who are You?"
>
> "A just man."
>
> "I know You are a Galilean.  Can there be a just man in Galilee?"
>
> "Do what I told you, and be a just man yourself."
>
> "Listen to the Galilean Who is defending His equals!  And He wants to
> teach us of the Temple!"
>
> Many people take their companion's part against Jesus.
>
> There are two or three ironical rabbis, and one asks:  "Are You a doctor?"
>
> "Yes, I am,"
>
> "What do You teach?"
>
> "This I teach:  to make the House of God a house of prayer and not a usury
> or a market place.  That is what I teach."
>
> Jesus is formidable.  His eyes.  His wrath.  And full of wrath, He walks
> fast and solemn between the benches.  He scatters the coins sorted out so
> meticulously according to their values.  He turns over the benches and
> tables.
>
> He then snatches from the hands of stable-boys some ropes, and makes a
> very hard lash, in which the slip-knots are real scourges.  He lifts it,
> swings it and strikes mercilessly with it.
>
> Yes, I can assure you.  Mercilessly.
> ________
>
> --
> aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM
>
> <image.png>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.
> www.avast.com
> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>
> <#m_7641825761682708005_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sundaycommunity mailing list
> Sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca
> http://lists.integralshift.ca/listinfo.cgi/sundaycommunity-integralshift.ca
>
>

-- 
aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.integralshift.ca/private.cgi/sundaycommunity-integralshift.ca/attachments/20210307/6c2cbb4c/attachment.html>