Saturday, May 6 : John Tauler

Our Lord himself teaches us what to do if our interior self is to become a house of prayer since the human person is, in truth, a temple dedicated to God. First of all we have to expel the merchants, that is to say the images and representations of created goods, and everything that gives us satisfaction in worldly things and pleasure in our own will. Then we are to wash the temple with our tears to make it clean. Not every temple is holy just because it is a habitable dwelling…; God alone makes it holy. The temple we are talking about here is God’s delightful temple in which God is proclaimed in truth when… we have made it clean. How could God choose to make his home in a soul before it has given even the slightest thought to God? Isn’t it often cluttered up with too many other things?

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