You're listening to the I Pray with the Gospel Daily Reflection on the St. Jose Maria Institute podcast.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

Ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.

Monday of Holy Week, a reading from the Gospel of John, Chapter 12.

Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of John, chapter 12. Mary took a pound of costly ointment, of pure nard, and annoyed the feet of Jesus, and

wiped his feet with her hair.

And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he who was to betray him, said, why was this

ointment not sold for three hundred dinari and given to the poor?

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief.

And as he had the money box, he used to take what was put into it.

Jesus said, let her alone. Let her keep it for the day of my burial. The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.

Thank you, Mary, for your generosity. Thank you for your example for loving Jesus so much. Thank you for giving him joy before his passion, for pouring

on him all the perfume and not just a few drops. Thank you for filling the atmosphere with the

fragrance of your generosity, the scent of your love. Thank you for your contrition, because being a

sinner, you were forgiven much, and because you being a sinner you were forgiven much.

Because you loved much, you were given more.

And for receiving so much you gave him even more.

The jar was like your heart.

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