December 2009
4 posts
On those who pretend to be beggars
It is folly, it is madness, to fill our wardrobes full of clothes and to regard with indifference a human being, a being made in the image and likeness of God, who is naked, trembling with cold and almost unable to stand. You say: “But the fellow is pretending to tremble and not to have any strength.” So what? If that poor fellow is acting, he is doing it because he is trapped between his own...
“Christ then took our nature, when He would redeem it; He redeemed it by making...”
– John Henry Newman