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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE SACRAMENT OF POVERTY\nFrom “The Starved and the Silent” by Fr Aloysius Schwartz4\n◊◊◊\nChrist lives on in the world today and exerts his influence upon it in three\nways: 1) the Eucharist\, 2) the inspired word of Scripture\, and 3) the person of the\npoor. He who made us dwells among us. He can be found not only in the silence\nof our tabernacles and in the solemn language of our sacred books\, but also on\nour streets and in our marketplaces. The living Christ is as close to us as the\nnearest poor person… \nDown through the history of the Church\, the saints\, with that penetrating\ninsight and clairvoyance which characterized them\, always saw Christ in the\nperson of the poor… A typical story is that related in the life of St. Martin of\nTours. Of a cold wintry night Martin of Tours was returning to Amiens on\nhorseback. A beggar\, half-frozen from the cold\, asks for alms in the name of\nChrist. Martin has nothing except his weapons and his clothes\, so he rents his\ncloak in two\, gives one half to the beggar\, and continues on his way. The\nfollowing night Christ appears to Martin\, clothed in the half-cloak which he gave\nthe beggar\, and speaks these words: “Martin\, catechumen\, has covered me with\nhis garment.”… \nIt requires faith of the deepest kind to see God present in the person of the\npoor. It requires the faith of the centurion… who could look up at the crushed\nfigure of Christ upon the cross\, a figure in whom there was neither beauty nor\ncomeliness… an object of scorn and ridicule… and say: “Indeed this was the Son\nof God.”… \nThe Son of God could have cast himself down unhurt from the pinnacle of\nthe temple and in a blaze of spectacular circus glory forced the belief of all\nonlookers in the divinity of his person. He also could have fed the crowds with\nloaves and fishes not once or twice\, but every day in order to buy their love. But\nGod did not want to force belief nor to buy love. He wanted it given in humility\nand lowliness or he wanted it not at all… \nSo it is that the Infinite God chooses to reveal himself to man through the\nmost finite of finite things: the commonplace\, everyday elements of bread and\nwine\, the simple words of human language\, a child born in a stable and later\nnailed to a tree\, and the teeming masses of the poor who will always be with us.\nMan’s eyes must be washed with truth and his heart cleansed with humility if he\nis to come to God on these lowly terms… \nThe poor have been… anointed by poverty and suffering to become\nmediators between man and God. Through them\, men are permitted to sacrifice\nthemselves to God\, and in turn\, God gives himself to men. Christ’s presence in\nthe poor marvelously complements his presence in the Eucharist. In the\nSacrament of the Eucharist\, the Son of God gives himself to us in the form of\nbread; and we approach the table of communion as spiritual beggars – with\noutstretched hand and hungry heart. In the “sacrament of poverty\,” the roles are\nmysteriously reversed: Christ is now the beggar\, and he humbly approaches us\nand pleads with us to give him bread… Although the mode\, manner\, and means\nmay differ\, there is a great similarity between Christ dwelling in the Eucharist\nand Christ dwelling in the person of the poor. In one case the presence is\nsacramental\, in the other social or mystical. In both cases the presence is real. \n4 Schwartz\, Aloysius. The Starved and the Silent. Garden City\, NY: Doubleday &\nCompany\, INC.\, 1966. 156-159\, 161.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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