Welcome to the Pauline Family's "Year of the Bible"! I'm reading the Bible clear through this year, and I invite you to read along with me. But first, let us pray:
My God, I adore and thank your loving and wise Providence, manifested on every page of Sacred Scripture. You have always been close to sinful and erring humanity, and have indicated the way and given hope. Amid the shadows of error and corruption, you kindled the light of your truth; amid universal corruption, you are the Just One; amid so much idolatry, humanity in every corner of the earth has cultivated a sincere worship of you.
Let my reading today increase my trust in your goodness, your mercy, and your unfailing faithfulness.
Today's chapters are 1 Chronicles 17-19 and (for Lent) Psalm 68.
On the vigil of Holy Week, we read (again) of David's dream of building a Temple, a house for God, and God's promise, instead, of a "house" for David.
The Gospel for tomorrow's Palm Sunday procession (if there is one this year) will be just the beginning of Mark 11. If that proclamation were to continue past the "Hosannas!" we would hear of Jesus "cleansing" the Jerusalem Temple in a prophetic action that foretold and in a way kickstarted the destruction of the earthly "house of God." The real "house of God" is not the one designed and built by humans; it was and is the Body of Christ, "destroyed" by crucifixion only to be raised on the third day. St Peter will later write to his disciples that they have become "living stones, built into a spiritual house" (1 Peter 2:5).
Start reading 1 Chronicles here and Psalm 68 here.
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