But as the story of the widow’s mite makes clear, generosity is not primarily about the size of the gift; rather, it’s about the disposition of heart with which the gift is given.
We’re desperate to get it right - to find the words that will unite us once and for all with God and each other. In true Jesus-fashion, he gives even more than was asked for: not just one, but two great commandments. And his answer is what it always is: love.
Perhaps above all, saints don’t wait. They understand that now is the time to serve, now is the time to love, now is the time for all on Earth to be as it is in Heaven.
Jesus makes very clear in today’s Gospel that service is his whole reason for being.
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What I’d offer is that we’re meant to be living lives of eternal purpose. What do I mean by that? I mean that, here and now, we are meant to be about God’s work in the world. As humans, made to be God’s image bearers, we need to be about the work of bringing earth to heaven (as priests) and bringing heaven to earth (as kings).
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As it relates to fatherhood - in its manifold conceptions - it’s probably best to start with God as Father. From there, we can say that all fatherhood is related to God; that our fatherhood is real and good inasmuch as it reflects and embodies God’s fatherly love. In that sense, I pray and strive to be worthy of the name.
That Jesus’ faithful followers can be identified with the Eucharist is remarkable. It also just makes a lot of sense. The Council of Trent declared that “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained” in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
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In the Gospel author’s account of the first Christian Pentecost, we should see - 50 days after the new and definitive Passover - that the Apostles’ being filled with the Spirit and bringing people to trust and follow Jesus is like the bundle of wheat offered to God as a sign of the abundant harvest to come.
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