The Mass readings for Sunday, November 10, are taken from 1 Kings 17:10-16; Psalm Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10; Hebrews 9:24-28; and Mark 12:38-44.
No one is small in the eyes of God. God sees us all.
In Old Testament culture, widows belong to the class of people described as poor. Along with peasants, manual laborers, beggars, prostitutes, and the sick, they are collectively known in Hebrew as the “anawim YHWH” or the “poor of YHWH.”
In the New Testament, the poor of YHWH...