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.

I 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.

We read in the Gospel of St. Luke,

But looking up, he saw the rich who were putting their gifts into the treasury, and he saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.

And he said, truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all.

For all these out of their abundance have put in as gifts to God,

but she out of her want has put in all that she had to live on.

Our Lord does a double take here because he is amazed at the generosity of this poor widow.

And he pointed out to the apostles because, well, perhaps the apostles were looking at how much much everybody else was putting in and you know

they were probably commenting on how much you know the rich and the famous were bringing in and they

were awed by that they were stupefied by how much, you know, money all these people had.

Perhaps that's something we could think about.

But our Lord is really impressed at not the amount, but at the way it is done, at the, he looks at the heart, he looks at the inside, and he looks at the circumstances of each person.

So only he really knows how much is really generous for each person.

And he points to this widow because she didn't have anything else to live on,

except these two copper coins that really amount to nothing but she gave

them to God and because of that it is implied here she goes home justified

you know because you know God is very pleased with this gift and we know that

God cannot be outdone in generosity. Well, our Lord is constantly talking about

poverty and being poor in spirit. He says it in the sermon of the Mount. Blessed are the

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