 I've just been thinking about that like what is it exactly? We hear all the time, you know give 100% What does that actually look like to give? 100% or and every now and then you'll say you just got to give a hundred and ten percent What does that look like amen? And just for the record, it's nice to hear your voices not muffled like Sounds much better. Amen. I'm just saying I'm just saying But what does it look like really to give our all you look at Oftentimes athletes or marathon people who run marathon I don't know why you'd run a marathon, but if you run a marathon, right? But there's the sense especially at the all at the end when they're just really struggling and they're tall in that It's like okay that person they gave their all, but do they really give their all? I've had the opportunity a couple of times to be a Normandy And I must say that when you stand on the beaches of Normandy There's this sense of people who gave their all. I mean What more could you give than your life? We celebrated Memorial Day on Monday that you give your all today same Boniface a person who gives his all And the reason I stress that is in the gospel today that Jesus points out that this woman gave all that she had She didn't hold back anything Just a really really beautiful image if you imagine they're in the temple and people are coming up and then they're throwing money and these these people I'm sure in fancy dresses and clothes and Gucci whatever it I don't know what people were anymore. All right, we're happy. That's not that complicated Right, so they're throwing in all their money and then this poor little woman comes up And it's really really important because what Jesus focuses on is not necessarily the two coins that she gives But he focuses on the woman. He says this woman, right this widow She gave two coins And he said she gave more than some of the translations say that everybody else combined So I invite you to not focus on the money That's given and let me say that that's the first time a university president has ever said that Okay, and when I ask you this evening for money forget what I just said All right, because it's always about the money All right, but just for this story here because it goes with this story. Let's not focus on The money right she gives two small coins Worth almost nothing Yeah, I mean literally two coins isn't gonna build a building Two coins isn't gonna raise a mountain move a mountain Two coins isn't gonna heal the blind a leper race the dead But it's not about the two coins It's not about the gift It's really about the giver. Yeah, maybe two coins can't move a mountain But maybe the faith of a woman who gives two coins Can raise the dead he always is focusing on the woman and the widow One could question whether or not Jesus was very good at math because he said she gave more than It makes it very very clear that Jesus doesn't see the same things the same way that we do I mean, we would have a tally there and say, okay, they give this she gave this clearly it wasn't more But again, Jesus isn't looking at the coins He's looking at the offering He's looking at the gift with which she gave because the scripture says that she gave out of her poverty That she gave out of her livelihood when this woman comes and gives two coins What she's really saying is God. I believe that you're gonna take care of me What she's really saying is God. I trust you. I trust you that if I give you this You're going to come through that you're not gonna let me down that you are who you say you are that you are faithful Because I don't have anything else tomorrow But I'm going to give this offering and I'm gonna give you all that I have out of my poverty out of my weakness Out of my brokenness and you better come through because I got nothing else Have you ever given like that? the Lord delights in that And what does it look like right? What does it look like for us to give in such a way? How how is it that that it impacts us because what she's doing is she's giving the scripture says of her poverty And of her livelihood, but most of the time if we're honest we give of our surplus It doesn't really cost us anything and again. I'm not talking about the money What does it cost us what risk is there what step in faith is there? And this is what moves Jesus's heart This is what it is able to take this poor little woman that says compared to everybody else This woman is different. Amen that this woman has faith That this woman has given more than anybody else What's it look like for you and for I to give like that a Year ago a little bit over a year ago. We at the university were praying about what are we going to do in the middle of a pandemic? And what are we gonna do if students to come don't come back? And what are we gonna do about even opening our doors when most of the schools around us? We're not opening and they said we'll just go to online because it's safer or whatever it is, right? But we thought differently we make this step in faith and I don't know if you're aware But what we did is all new students last fall. We said you guys can come for free. We're not gonna charge you tuition Lord you better come through on this Seriously, you better come through because we're a poor school We received over three million dollars worth of donations to the step in faith, right? because We give So we're talking about whether or not we're gonna have conferences and we said that we said we're going to have conferences and people around It says I'm not really sure that's a good idea. Why don't we go online? You can do really really good things online. I said no, we're gonna have people We're gonna have butts in seats on Franciscan University, right, right? So we're signing contracts we're signing contracts and we're putting out money It's like oh Lord you better come through and three days ago all restrictions of COVID are lifting So we're gathering here, amen But but what does it look like for you? What's it look like for you to give your all To give of your livelihood to give of your poverty. There's something different about that There's something different about giving out of our surplus and we always rationed we heard last night Chris said that The God doesn't ration, but we always ration we ration our time. We ration our energy We ration our money all of that kind of thing, but what does it mean to give our everything? But I suggest some of you know exactly what this is like Having a son or daughter and and they seem to be lost And in a moment of a fear and anxiety and not sure you say Jesus I just give you my daughter and I trust that you're gonna take care of her that that that total that's That's giving of your weakness and giving out of your poverty and giving out of your brokenness. I Suggest that for some it's it's a prayer that I make every now and then I don't make it often because I don't want to Remind God of it, but just every now and then I'll make a prayer that says God I give you permission to do whatever you want to do to me to make me holy or Jesus take away everything in my life That keeps me away from you. I suggest that that's a prayer out of poverty a prayer of weakness I suggest that some of you who stood up last night And not sure what exactly it means to give your life fully to the Lord and to surrender your future and to surrender your will and To place before him your hopes and your dreams and your desires and your future And to put that before him and say Jesus I give you everything and you were willing to stand up You see remembering that we that Jesus doesn't look at us the same way as the world does and he looks at this woman Who gives two coins and says that's more than all the others It could be possible that somebody who stood up last night was more courageous than the men and women who wouldn't on the beaches of Normandy It could be that the Lord could look at you and say you Have given more Than everyone else And I thought Peter shared so beautifully last night that he wasn't able to do he wasn't able to stand and he wasn't able to fully radically and profoundly totally Give of himself and the beauty the moment when he came to realize that that's what the Lord wanted and the freedom that he Experienced when he stood up because the Lord doesn't see Like we see Amen It could be the prayer of my mom Who's 85 she's 84. She actually gets she gets mad when I say she's 85. She's 84. All right Seriously after 80 it's just showing off. Okay, so let's just it's whatever right. She's 97 And my mom used to my mom for decades went to mass every day And she did all kinds of things. She led Curcio. She led retreat She was led the youth group all of these things mom can't do any of that anymore She shares with me how how frustrated she is that she's not able to do all those things for the Lord And she sits in her chair early in the morning And she lights a candle And she prays perhaps Giving more than she's ever given before because the Lord doesn't see and measure The same where we do We're about to come around this Eucharist and then we're gonna take bread and wine and we're gonna pray It's gonna become the body and blood and Jesus is gonna give us his everything Holding back nothing and he invites us to do the same thing What does it look like and what would it look like? For you to give your all To give out of your poverty out of your brokenness Out of your fear and your anxiety and says Jesus you better come through Because if you don't I don't know what I'm gonna do and I suggest brother and sisters. It's at that moment That we discover what faith is We discover what faithfulness is That we allow the Lord perhaps honestly for the first time for us to be able to experience What it is for he to be faithful to us So let us give our all out of our poverty and see how the Lord returns the favor