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Rich in Poverty

This Rock Volume 18, Number 4   April 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   The Great Divorce: The Evil Fruits of Henry VIII’s Divorce By Christopher Check   Quick Lesson in Canon Law   Further Reading   Lady Anne Boleyn   Repugnant to the Laws of God   "Enslaved by Your Passion for a Girl"   A Philosopher with Heart By Dietrich von Hildebrand   Dietrich von Hildebrand, 1889-1977   The Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project   Should We be Indifferent to Everything but God? By Alice von Hildebrand   Noble and Ignoble Feelings   The Holy Madness of Love   Seven Principles of Cathoilc Social Teaching By Christopher Kaczor   Rich in Poverty   For Further Reading   What You Do for Them You Do for Him   Damascus Road The Other Side of the Mirror By Scott McDermott   By the Book Not by Scripture Alone By Jim Blackburn   Truth be Told They Sang All the Way to the Guillotine By Matthew E. Bunson   Classic Apologetics The Supernatural Kinship of Catholics By Rev. Paul van Kuykendall Thomson   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Preview (pdf; 3MB)    Subscribe    Permissions

Then there was the man we picked up from the drain, half eaten by worms and, after we had brought him to the home, he only said, "I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die as an angel, loved and cared for." Then, after we had removed all the worms from his body, all he said, with a big smile, was: "Sister, I am going home to God"—and he died. It was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that without blaming anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel—this is the greatness of people who are spiritually rich even when they are materially poor.

We are not social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of some people, but we must be contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we must bring that presence of God into your family, for the family that prays together, stays together. There is so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice, are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put into what we do. . . I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people first. And find out about your next-door neighbors. Do you know who they are?
—Bl. Mother Theresa