The Widow’s Mite applied to spiritual life

 

If we are granted special graces such as the gift of contemplative prayer, consolations, signs or miracles from Our Lord, that doesn’t make us any better than those that don’t. Indeed, someone who struggles to say a simple prayer yet still says that prayer with love and devotion may be offering a greater service and sacrifice than one who spends a whole hour deep in a contemplation to which they are naturally disposed.

And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings [b]for God, but she out of her poverty put inall the livelihood that she had.” - Luke 21:1-4