not into your keeping; and would you, O God of all mercy,46 spurn the broken, humbled heart47 of a chaste and temperate widow who was untiring in her acts of charity,48 attentive to the needs of your saints and faithful in serving them? Never a day would pass but she was careful to make her offering at your altar. Twice a day, at morning and evening, she was unfailingly present in your church, not for gossip or old wives’ tales but so that she might hearken to your words, as you to her prayers.