• Ordinary Time: 32nd Sunday

    32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time – Cycle B (2015)

    This gospel about the poor widow who gives everything she has to the temple has probably been the most popular scripture for fund-raising in the history of church fund-raising, no matter what denomination you’re a part of. After all, how could you not use a gospel where the message seems to be, even if you think you don’t have a lot to give, dig down, and make a real sacrifice with what you have. And it’s paired with yet another reading from the Old Testament, about yet another widow, who serves the prophet Elijah with her last scrap of flour and oil. The question of how much to give away,…