Catholic Wisdom

"What joy there will be at the Judgment for those who will learn from Jesus Christ that the kindness they showed to the poor was kindness shown to Him. 'Yes,' He will say to them, 'it was I Myself that you came to see in that sick person. It was to Me that you rendered that service. It was to Me that gave alms in that poor man on the street.'"

--Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, "Sermon on Almsgiving," in The Curé of Ars and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, part of the Spiritual Treasury of Ars series, 1923.