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The poor are calling us to love
60. The experience of daily life, in every country in the world calls us, if we do not close our eyes, to look the hungry in the eye. In this look is the blood of our brothers and sisters crying out (Cf. Gen. 4:10). We know that it is God calling out to us through the hungry. The sentence of the universal Judge condemns without compassion: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food ..." (Mt. 25:41 ff).
These words, which spring from the heart of God-made-man, enable an understanding the deep significance of meeting the fundamental needs of every man and woman in the eyes of their Creator. Do not allow the person, who is made in the image of God, to fall down for that would be letting the Lord fall! In the groaning of the hungry, it is God who is hungry and who is callings. Being a disciple of God, who is self revealing, the Christian is urged to heed the cries of the poor. It is a call to love.