Holy Monday: Jesus Overturns the Tables

                      Holy Monday: Jesus Overturns the Tables

After his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Jesus went into the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and merchants, telling them, “‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”.

Matthew 21:12, 13

Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;
   but you are making it a den of robbers.’

In Merchandising Truth by Meister Eckhart in the C12 reminds us that our souls are the temple that must be kept pure for God, and warns us not to bargain with God. This idea is woven into this prayer reflection.

Truthfully, Jesus,

There are many tables

that need overturning    in our lives;

Beneath the veneer of respectability

hide dark feelings and angry judgements

fear and heartless rejections

We know the pain,

of keeping up the facade;

It would be a relief it would be to have it all

Turned over, smashed, and destroyed

So Jesus, today as you meet us,

help us to radically rearrange

the tables of our lives