Monday 25 November 2024

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Today is Monday the 25th of November in the 34th week of Ordinary Time.

Eliza King sings, ‘Foolish and Ruined’. What precious thing could you offer Jesus today?

The more that I store up, cling to and covet

The less that I truly own

Wiser is she who takes up her perfume

Breaks the jar, let's it flow

On her love she spends it all

Many will say it's foolish

But I have known love and I'm ruined

To those who look on, it's wasteful

But to You, it is beautifully given

Love can look strange to religion

Love can look strange to religion

It cannot be bought with silver or gold

But still will cost all I have

But as treasure decays and earth fades away

There won't be a thing that I lack

So why would I hold my love back?

Many will say it's foolish

But I have known love and I'm ruined

To those who look on, it's wasteful

But to You, it is beautifully given

Love can look strange to religion

Love can look strange to religion

Broken and poured out

My love is fragrant now

I will not withhold

From the lover of my soul

Broken and poured out

My love is fragrant now

I will not withhold

From the lover of my soul

Broken and poured out

My love is fragrant now

I will not withhold

For my love, You're worth it all

Many will say it's foolish

But I have known love and I'm ruined

To those who look on, it's wasteful

But to You, it is beautifully given

Love can look strange to religion

Love can look strange to religion

But I'd rather be foolish and ruined

I'd rather be foolish and ruined

Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke.

Luke 21:1-4

[Jesus] looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.’

Imagine yourself in this scene.

You are in the Temple as people come and go bringing gifts.

Who can you see?

What do they look like?

Suddenly you see a poor widow. How does she seem to you?

What does she give to the treasury?

What do you think about her gift?

As you listen to what Jesus says about her, what is stirring in you?

Listen to the reading again.

Now it’s your turn to offer your gift to the treasury.

What will you give?

And what does Jesus say about your giving?

In these last moments of prayer, think about what it would mean for you to give everything you have to God.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.