For all these, out of their abundance, have added to the gifts for God. But she, out of what she needed, has put in all that she had to live on. (Lk 21:4)
πάντες γὰρ οὗτοι ἐκ τοῦ περισσεύοντος αὐτοῖς ἔβαλον εἰς τὰ δῶρα, αὕτη δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ὑστερήματος αὐτῆς πάντα τὸν βίον ὃν εἶχεν.
Nam omnes hi ex abundanti sibi miserunt in munera Dei: hæc autem ex eo, quod deest illi, omnem victum suum, quem habuit, misit.
When we follow today’s verb, it turns out that there is an interesting gradation. First, as Evangelist says, the woman threw in “two coins”, then “more”, and finally “everything”. The point is that we ourselves have to go through a process of trust to entrust our entire lives to God through simple gestures, and to put all our trust into the heavenly treasury. The widow could have kept one of the coins, yet she did not hesitate to put them in. She did not change them from hand to hand. With one gesture, she threw herself into the Father’s hands, because she only had Him.
