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Do you wish to see the temple now?

Then don't run to the synagogue ! 

Be a temple yourself... God destroyed one temple in Jerusalem, but he reared up temples beyond number, temples more august than that old one ever was... Paul said: "YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD. Make that temple beautiful, drive out every evil thought, so that you may be a precious member of Christ, a temple of the Spirit"...

"And make others be temples such as you are yourselves"...

"When you see the poor, you would not find it easy to pass them by... When all of you see some Christian running to the synagogue, do not look the other way. Find some argument you can use as a halter to bring him back to the Church"...

"THIS kind of almsgiving is greater...

than giving to the poor...

and the profit from it is worth more...

than ten thousand talents."


~chrysostomus~
against the jews
homily 6