What About the Poor?
What About the Poor?
How do you treat the poor? Turn to any page of St. Faustina's Diary, and you'll find spiritual gems. Like this one:
When the same poor people come to the gate a second time, I treat them with greater gentleness, and I do not let them see that I know they have been here before; [I do this] in order not to embarrass them. And then they speak to me freely about their troubles and needs.(1282)
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