Thirty-second Sunday B in Ordinary Time Mk 12,38-44

Allegiance to God (Mk 12,38-44)
To be faithful to God is to be accurate in little things.

Can you say what the great ones are: Rodeos, mother and father to their children; student to their duties; sportsman to sport; model to her activities; artist to his work; Christian Catholic to what he believes; and others and others to what they do out of love, conviction? These are all ‘excellent’ people who act out of passion and conviction and not out of compulsion or calculation, who have one thing in common: They are faithful in their little ways.
Great parents don’t miss out on anything for their kids. Some parents call themselves a father or a mother who doesn’t live, and they’re not great. Can a great model sit in a candy store every day? Who would pay a model – a chick?
To us Christian Catholics, believing what we want to be great, Jesus, in the example of the poor widow who threw two small coins into the treasury, says:

“In her poverty, she gave everything she had, her whole life. “(Mk 12.44)

Jesus’ words and miracles need interpretation, explanation. Even a simple event such as the behavior of the lawmakers and the behavior of a poor woman, a widow, may not be clear and may be poorly explained.
To behave as a widow would be ill-advised, to claim that this woman overreacted by putting her entire life in the temple treasury. After all, God doesn’t ask everything of us. Who’s going to leave it? Another person can make a false remark. If she gave everything, why put it in the temple treasury? She could have given it to the socially weak.
To properly understand the behavior of a widow assumes that we know of the Jews’ faith that their fate depends only on God and not on their work or the care of society. Therefore, the behavior of a widow, when she gives everything, even if it is very little, two small coins, quadrant, her behavior is an expression of total reliance on God, who is both the giver of life and the giver of all the means necessary for life. It is not an act of social superiority or righteousness, as the rich did, which they gave out from their surplus, but in the case of a widow, it is an act of faith. The Widow-Woman did not perform this act for the admiration of the lawmakers, whom Jesus criticizes. It decides the inside of a person. Jesus not only sees what they throw in the treasury and how because he sits there, he sees the treasury, but God sees inside the man, and he has no hidden thoughts, no motives for behavior.
The Gospel teaches us that we must not live our lives as those who know the law, sweat, give tens, but only for the people’s admiration. Jesus is giving us a personal example through the widow-wife. Jesus is addicted to the Father, and he only wants what the Father wants. True Christianity is that we faithfully fulfill everything, even the little things that God asks of us. God wants us all, and he doesn’t want anything. God wants our free brains and free will. He doesn’t, but he does. Is that a fact?

This event is multifaceted. For a small gift of conviction, Jesus promises a great reward. With God, the smallest donation can be significant. God can’t be bought or bribed. God is looking at the heart, not the wallet. Jesus puts emphasis not only on the size of the gift but on the love with which we give the gift. We can buy a lot from God for a bit of money, and he who gives or acts with the love of God gives more.
God created the world from nothing. Is the world made up of small parts (atoms, protons, quartz)? The oceans are made of drops. The time of our lives in seconds. Our Christianity from small, everyday good deeds.
St. The Shadow: “You want to be big? Start with the smallest. “When everything, even the little things in your life, is done with the love of God, it is the reward of the great that awaits us. There are no small people, no small deeds, no minor duties, no small gifts. There can only be little hearts and little love. Our lives may consist of little things, but done with the love of God and people, and we will be extraordinary Christians. Anyone can be significant, and the smallest can be the largest. St. Theresa of Jesus is already a Church reader.
The cook doesn’t appreciate the taste of the food. A little thing? No! No! No! Little things like spices mean a lot.
Why are we taking medicine as it is intended? A little thing? No! No! No! Even a little pill can ease the pain.
Why do we keep the details in the regulations, the regulations, the laws? We want to get there safely, like my car. We want this thing to serve us for a long time. The artist will donate to the exhibition or sell the finished work. A little thing? What about the critic?
And a Christian Catholic doesn’t go to Mass on Sundays and the holidays or stay away from the church. He’ll say it’s a small thing. There’s meat on Friday, and he’s not making the refund. It’s a small thing. Slander, theft, slander, disobedience, and utterance: It’s a small thing. Let us not forget to be generous to God. – Why not? The money and everything we have gained and gained on this earth will lose our value, us. Relatives, friends, acquaintances will escort us to the cemetery, but they will return home. Our good deeds, done for the love of God and kindred, we take before our God – the Judgement, and we bow to the merciful God so that he may forgive us and grant us eternal bliss.
Someone has correctly stated that three groups of donors are the reluctant donor, the duty donor, and the joyful donor. The unwilling donor says, “I hate giving, I hate giving.” I put off giving, and when I give, I share with contempt. Take it, and leave me alone. An unwilling donor also gives unwillingly. The less he does it of his own accord. It gives because it’s mandatory to provide. A joyous donor gives willingly from the heart and enjoys it.
Being simply good and doing what is right has never been and will never be easy. Even in today’s world, which only knows to have, to own as much as possible, generosity is very difficult. Even in the time of Jesus, some Pharisees and the lawmen were good, and Jesus was friendly with them. Others pretended to be holy. Jesus didn’t have them in his heart; he felt a kind of anger toward them.
What category are we in? Generosity to God, our neighbor, and ourselves, with what love, motivation, how often, and in what way do we realize? It’s up to us to act, the court to God, and it does not establish its activities in material terms. We also share the gifts of the spirit, talents, talent, skill, and resourcefulness…
That’s probably what Gogol thought when he said, “We’re never so poor that we can’t share with our fellow man. ‘
And Francis Balfour put it into words: “The best gift for our killer is that we forgive him. For a friend, our loyalty is our gift. That’s an excellent example for the kid. For Father, when we show him our allegiance. For mother, our heart. And for our hand, willing to help. ‘

We see how easy it is to make a lot of money with God, and we don’t have to work hard. There are unspeakable things that happen to us in doing good. It’s not what we gave; it’s what we helped with, but what love. God will not ask who you were, but what you were. Great men with their great works, but done without love, will be petite. Let us not burden ourselves with egos.
On the contrary, let us practice in small and small things, piquant willingness, cordiality… We will not be judged harshly. I don’t mistake that a man is as big as his love. Only God can get millions for a penny. Before God, our gift is as great as the love with which we have made it. Let us accept love as the measure of a man, but first, let us measure ourselves.

He’s talking about a ruler who decided to take on a temple on his dime. After it was built, he placed a table at the entrance with the words: The temple was created solely for Emperor X. He was surprised, however, when he was informed the following morning that his name was not on the marble tablet, but that of a woman. He had her called and asked what extraordinary thing she’d done when her name was on the board. A surprised woman admitted that when the temple was being built, and the horses were hauling a hefty load, tired and hungry, she threw them some hay and thought of God. “Is that all?” The monarch cried out in surprise—more chalk. A good deed done with the love of this woman was more valuable according to God than all the costs he had incurred in building it. That woman threw a horse with the thought of God. He made a temple with an idea for himself, not for God.

Jesus’ words from the Gospel are monstrous. “Everyone gave from their surplus, but she, in her poverty, gave everything, all her life. “(Mk 12.44). To avoid fearing God for once, to be ashamed of our lives, we have already adapted our attitudes and relationships to the little things we do.

All: Excellent parents, students, artists, models, but let us also have one thing in common: Let us do everything with the love of God, even if it is just ‘little things.