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The Gospel of John today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary relates the events of Jesus clearing the merchants from the Temple in Jerusalem. He shows displeasure at the use of His Father's House as a market place. We recognize that the human spirit responds to and is attracted to "spiritual places". The Celtic Church has celebrated "thin places" where the realm of the temporal comes close to the realm of the infinite. Jesus directs the attention of the Temple authorities to the Temple of the indwelling Spirit which is our body.  Paul, in the letter to the Corinthians proclaims that we are God's Temple and when we gather together we become God's building. The Christian Church celebrates the Presence of Christ in the gathered Assembly. The text from the Book of Ezekiel relates the life that flows from a "living Temple" which gathers and distributes the life of the Presence of the Divine to all who are open to see the invitation to "go with the flow".