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The widow’s donation November 26, 2018

Fr. Dan De Los Angeles |November 26,2018
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The widow’s donation November 26, 2018

Fr. Dan De Los Angeles - November 26, 2018 - 12:14 AM

Monday, 34th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Rv 14:1-3,4b-5 Gospel: Lk 21:1–4
Jesus looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into thetreasure box; he also saw a poor widow dropping in two small coins.And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow put in more than allof them. For all gave an offering from their plenty, but she, out ofher poverty, gave all she had to live on.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life  Experience)
Man counts by numbers while God accounts by proportion. What is plenty by human calculation could be scarce by God’s estimation, and what is scarce by human estimation could be abundant by God’s calculation. This is what today’s Gospel is all about.
To human observers, it may appear that those rich people dropping sizable amount of donations to the treasury box in today’s Gospel reading gave so much. But that’s because human beings count by the amount. If we talk of proportion, what they have dropped in that donation box was nothing in proportion to the blessings they have received from above. If we go by Biblical standards, Leviticus 27:31 mandates a ten percent share of one’s income to be given back to God. The money they were dropping was not even in accordance with this biblical standard.
While these rich people were ostentatious a poor widow was so anxious. She did not want anybody to find out how much she was giving because she only gave a few coins. But that was all she had. To human observers who account by the amount, that was so little a donation to count. But in proportion to what she had received in life, she was close to giving everything back to God. It could even have been an act of injustice to herself because ingiving away all she had she failed to reserve some provisions for hersustenance in the coming days. But she didn’t worry about herselfanymore because she knew that the God who owned everything that she-possessed is not outdone in generosity.Today’s Gospel is a grace-filled occasion to think about the great season of giving which escalates with the coming of Christmas. This season could be frustrating if recipients remain unimpressed by our generosity because we could only give so much. That is because humans account by the amount. This Christmas, avoid the disappointment by giving gifts for love of God. This way you won’t be affected by the ingratitude of your recipients. Any act of giving we do, including those that appear insignificant to our recipients will win God’s favor. This is because God does not account by the amount but by the beating of our hearts. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected].

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