🕯️ Monday, March 30, 2026
Monday of Holy Week
She Poured It All Out

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Monday of Holy Week • Year A • Beads of Joy Blog II

✝️ Today's Mass Readings

First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-7

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1-3, 13-14

Gospel: John 12:1-11

📖 The Gospel

Six days before Passover. Mary of Bethany takes a pound of pure nard, worth nearly a year's wages, and pours every drop of it on the feet of Jesus. Then she wipes His feet with her hair. The whole house fills with the fragrance. Judas objected immediately. Jesus says, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial."

🙏 Reflection

Here we are, Holy Week has begun, and there are only six days left. Mary didn't measure it out; she wasn't saving it for later. She poured the whole jar, extravagantly, scandalously, completely, on the feet of the One she loved. And the whole house filled with the beautiful fragrance of it.

Judas had the math right. Three hundred denarii WAS a lot of money. But his math was missing the most important number, six. Six days, and Mary knew it. She chose to spend everything she had on this moment because this moment would never come again.

That is Holy Week. One jar. One week. Everything on the table. What are you going to do with it? Pour it out. The whole house will fill with the fragrance.

🌟 HOLY WEEK CHALLENGE - The Alabaster Jar

Grab a pen and paper. Write at the top. What is my alabaster jar?

Answer honestly, what have you been offering God in carefully measured portions this Lent instead of just pouring out completely? Write it down. Then write one specific act of extravagant love you will do before Easter Sunday. Something that actually costs you something.

Fold that paper and keep it in your pocket all week.

📿 Rosary - The Sorrowful Mysteries

Focus: The Agony in the Garden

Mary poured out perfume. Jesus poured out everything, sweat like drops of blood, His very life, just days later in this same garden. Let her extravagant love prepare your heart for His.

🌹 Our Lady of Fatima

Mary of Bethany and Our Lady of Fatima share the same heart. Our Lady didn't come to Fatima with a measured, careful message. She came with tears, urgency, and an Immaculate Heart on fire. You have one jar. One Holy Week. Let her show you how to pour it out.

🕊️ Closing Prayer

Lord Jesus, here is my jar. All of it, at Your feet. You are worth every drop. I offer it all to you, for you, because I love you, Lord. Amen.




©2026 James Dacey, Jr., OFS

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