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SUMMARY:Sunday 26th October\, Holy Eucharist for a Dedication Festival\, 1
 1.30am
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DESCRIPTION:In this morning’s gospel we hear the marvellous story where 
 Jesus enters the Temple in Jerusalem and overturns the tables of the money
  changers. People often think this story shows that Jesus was against thos
 e churches that have a small bookstall in the back\, because he didn't agr
 ee with conducting commercial business in a place of worship. But this is 
 not what the story is about. \n\nJesus' anger at the money changers and th
 e people selling cattle\, sheep\, and doves for sacrifice was not because 
 they were trading in a religious building\, but because the Jewish law req
 uired that people approach God by sacrificing an animal and\, so as to kee
 p the whole process pure\, they were required to change their normal money
  into special Temple money which was then used to actually buy their anima
 l for sacrifice. \n\nJesus was angry at a whole process which set up barri
 ers between people and God\, and indeed made it difficult for people witho
 ut sufficient financial means to purchase an animal at all. Rather he want
 ed to show that anybody and everybody could approach God directly\, and no
 ne of this pseudo-religious paraphernalia was required.\n\nPIcture above: 
 Extract from Expulsion of the Merchants from the Yemple. Artist A.N. Miron
 ov. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali
 ke 4.0 International license.
LOCATION:St George's Church\, Málaga
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8530/service-and-events/events/1
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