Saint John XXIII, Pope
Tuesday of week 28 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 11:37-41
“Instead, give alms from what you have and then indeed everything will be clean for you.” How is giving alms cleanse us? It cleanses us because giving alms is sharing with freedom of heart against the selfish desire to hold everything for us alone. It’s not compelling and it’s from your free will. And most important, we don’t get anything in return from the poor person to whom we give. It’s sharing of what you have inside you. It’s sharing without desiring anything in return. It is sharing for making the poor person closer to me. When we give from our heart, our inside becomes clean because of the goodness we are spreading inside ourselves with the decision to share. Every time we decide to share with someone poor what we have, we are generating a good will inside our heart which will clean our heart from our selfishness and from our ego. The more you can share, the more you can clean your inside. Am I sharing enough to clean my heart?
Tuesday 11 October
