Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, priest and martyr
Preparatory Prayer (to place myself in God’s presence)
Lord, today, as every day, You turn Your gaze and observe my heart. You know I have very little to offer You and, yet, You expect everything from me. Allow this prayer to inspire me to truly give You all my love and all my being, without selfish calculations, but with growing generosity, without limits, because You are the King of my life.
Gospel of the day (to guide your meditation)
From the holy Gospel according to Luke 21:1-4
At that time, looking up, Jesus saw some rich people putting their gifts into the treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two small coins. And He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, has put in all she had to live on.”
The word of the Lord.
Reflect on what God says to you in the Gospel (we suggest you read this)
«The widow in the Gospel, just like the one in the Old Testament, gives everything, she gives herself, and places herself in God’s hands, for the good of others. This is the perennial meaning of the offering of the poor widow, whom Jesus exalts because she gives more than the rich, who offer part of what they have left, while she gives all she had to live on, thus giving herself.[…] To God, the sacrifice of Jesus, offered “once for all,” was enough to save the entire world, because in that single oblation is condensed all the love of the Son of God made man, as in the gesture of the widow, all the love of that woman for God and her brothers is concentrated: she lacks nothing and nothing can be added to her. The Church, which is born constantly from the Eucharist, from Jesus’ gift, is the continuation of this gift, of this abundance expressed in poverty, of the whole offered in the fragment» (Benedict XVI, November 8, 2009).
Dialogue with Christ
This is the most important part of your prayer, prepare to converse with much love with Him who loves you.
Purpose
Set a personal one. The one that involves the most love in response to the Beloved… or, if you believe it is what God asks of you, live what is suggested below.
I will organize my personal things to part with something I cherish, but that I truly do not need, to give it to someone who needs it more and trust in God.
