I've always said that if I ever win a lottery and get millions of dollars, I would love to have something like that built for our church in State College. But I think my [conscience] would get the better of me---how many people could I help by donating that amount of money to the right charity? [Whether] it's children in foreign countries or any other number of charities, the millions it would cost to build a church like that could help a lot of people! But the church is gorgeous!
Tim
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box and poured it on His head. And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, "Why was this ointment wasted? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor." And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on Me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good; but Me ye have not always. She hath done what she could; she hath come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. Verily I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of as a memorial of her." St Mark 14:3-9
Fr David Straut
