Making Greater Space For The Poor In Our Hearts

“Love of the poor is a special mark of discipleship, but deeply committed people will have different ways of showing their love.

Some work in kitchens or overnight shelters. Others may work for living-wage laws, help unionize low-wage workers or promote fair trade producs. Yet others may tutor or teach night classes. A few, like Catholic Workers, choose to live with the poor.

What’s important to Christian moral development is not only to find our own style of commitment, but to test it regularly, so it grows and evolves, making greater space for the poor in our hearts and in our lives.

Thus writes Drew Christiansen, Editor of AMERICA, Vol. 196 No. 14
April 16, 2007 in his column “Of Many Things”.