This is VLX number 148. In memory of her, we are in St. Matthew, Chapter 26, verses 1 to 13.

VLX stands for Video Lexia de Vina, the Patristic Bible study, and Ignatian prayer series online.

God give you his peace and nominipati, Sifidi, it's speedy to santi, amen.

God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions, and operations be directed

purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty.

And no many Pachi, Sifidi, it's Bidu Santee, amen.

And if you are listening to this in real time, the 8th of April, 2024, happy enunciation.

I always say this is the most underrated of all feasts because not only is this the

Annunciation to Mary, it is also the incarnation.

When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,

You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the son of man will be delivered up to be crucified.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the ballots of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

But they said not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant saying, Why this waste?

For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them,

Why do you trouble the woman?

For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this out,

in pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you,

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