--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/17/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 5/17/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/05/16/daily-readings-reflection-for-51711#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 5/17/11 May 16, 2011 9:00:38 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 280. Acts 11:19-26. Psalm 87:1-3.4-5.6-7. John 10:22-30 [Tuesday's Readings](http://usccb.org/nab/051711.shtml) Sacred places are significant in our lives.  For the Gentiles who were converted to belief in Jesus the city of Antioch in Syria was a sacred place.  They were instructed by Barnabas and Paul and it was at Antioch that the term "Christian" was used for the first time. We learn this from the conclusion of our first reading: "It was in Antioch that the disciples were called Christians (followers of Christ) for the first time. (Acts 11:26). Peter would become the first overseer at Antioch (their first bishop). The Psalm and its response sing of the sacred place called Mount Zion or Jerusalem.  This Psalm is frequently sung at feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary who is celebrated as the "Daughter of Zion."  The verses and the refrain are very musical and beautiful in both the English and the Hebrew original.  Even the Gentiles revere and come up to Mount Zion to worship and all are called to be sons and daughters of Zion.  "Glorious things are said of you, O city of God." Jesus walks on Mount Zion in the temple area-- a very sacred place then and now for the three monotheistic religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.  He walks during the cool and even cold rainy season on the feast of the Dedication.  He teaches openly there and many are wondering whether he is the Messiah; others are threatened by what he says and often interpret him wrongly even thinking that he says he would destroy the temple and three days raise it up.  He was speaking of the temple of his own body!  Jesus is speaking openly about his relationship to God, his Father.  He tells them and us that he and the Father are one!  John is very explicit about the divinity of Jesus and we are hearing the living voice of the Word made flesh in his Gospel. Jesus is both human and divine in all that those terms mean. Earlier in his Gospel, John has given us the scene where Jesus keeps holy the temple by driving out the money changers and the merchants who seem to always infringe on shrines and holy places with their merchandise or their buying and selling--even today as we know at Ephesus, Rome, or near the shrine of Elijah near Haifa.  Jesus zeal burned for the sacredness of the temple.  Even as a young lad of twelve he had great devotion to this sacred place. (Luke 2:40-51). We may ask ourselves where is our sacred place where we are prayerful, reverent, and recollected?  Where is it that we can find peace and joy in a sacred space or place?  Is the temple of our heart a sacred place that is open to the silence and warmth of God within it?  Do we have some sacred time to listen to the living voice of God or do we need to leave aside some of the noise that we choose to listen to?  Can we ponder over these words of our Psalm this day?  "And all shall sing in their festive dance, "My home is within you." Psalm 87:7. Amen. 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