On the Sunday when Christ drives the money changers from the Temple, Herod's gold-plated sanctuary of white marble, as Josephus describes it, is seen as built in God's providence for the God-man, the first house of His Real Presence, which should move us to honor our own churches where He dwells in the tabernacle. On their feast day, the sixteen Carmelite martyrs of Compiègne, who offered their lives to end the Terror, go to the guillotine singing, each asking, "Permission to die, Mother?"Listen with the full transcriptGo to episodeSermon of the Day podcast