"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor
Dorothy Day
I love how the above picture shows who Dorothy Day was really serving when she was caring for the poor – Jesus. You can see this because of the cross and ὁὤν characters on the halo, as well as the IC XC by his right shoulder.
For those of you who are disappointed that the St. Francis saying is apocryphal…
“We must preach to the poor with our hands before we preach with our lips”
– St. Peter Claver
Here’s something beautiful for the beginning of the year…
Yesterday I came across a great post over at Upworthy on how to help those living on the street…
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Beautiful.
