November 10 - Sunday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(1Kgs.17:10-16; Ps.146:1,7-10; Heb.9:24-28; Mk.12:38-44) "She, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood." Jesus sits in the temple and watches as "the crowd put[s] money into the treasury." When He sees "a poor widow… put in two small coins worth a few cents," He calls His disciples over, and speaks the truth to them: "Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury." Whatever wealth anyone else might have stuffed into the box cannot begin to compare to her whole sacrifice – it mimics His own. And in our first reading…
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