It is time for my favorite Gospel once again

Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 

He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there.
He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables,
and to those who sold doves he said, "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's house a marketplace."
His disciples recalled the words of scripture, "Zeal for your house will consume me."
At this the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."
The Jews said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?"
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

So Father Chris was rushed to the hospital this week for surgery. He is fine Thank God but we had to have a substitute Priest from Visitation Parish in Red Hook. Now the problem is that the guy is Polish and almost incomprehensible. The rhythm of the whole Mass was off. He would talk over the organist and mutter under the music. He read different passages then normal. Everybody was messed up and all over the place.

I was at a big disadvantage as I had forgotten my glasses so I couldn't even read the missal. But I did know the Gospel since as you know it is my favorite.

Then the organist decided he was Protestant because he kept playing Protestant hymns. He played "Now We Gather at the River" and "Amazing Grace" and I thought I was in a Western or something.

The Archdiocese of New York just announced that is was closing about 30 churches and merging about 100 others. Now this is the Archdiocese that covers Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and Westchester. We are in the Archdiocese of Brooklyn which covers Brooklyn and Queens.

They are shutting down most of the churches in Manhattan because only about 12% of the Catholics in the diocese live in Manhattan. At one time these churches were packed with the Irish on the West Side and the Italians in the Lower East Side and in Harlem. But now most if not all of the immigrant Catholics are gone. The Hispanics don't live in Manhattan anymore and are mostly found in Queens of all places. So these churches are only for funerals or weddings and are very sparsely attended under normal conditions.

The church has a bunch of expensive properties that the real estate moguls have their eyes on and I bet the princes of the Church will be selling them off piece by piece. Money changing by selling the Temple.