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Give!

It's been a while. I've been busy. But I'm back... at least for the next wee while as a number of people have asked me to post a couple of things', beginning with some who asked for me to post the conclusion of my sermon today... so here it is in a slightly edited form, together with the Gospel passage that prompted it... Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.  42  But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few pence. 43  Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said,  ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.   44  They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything – all she had to live on.’ Mark 12: 41-44 (NIVUK) On Friday I was meeting Louise Ferguson, the manager of the Larder foodbank in East Belfast, in preparation