Daily Reflection Monday of the First Week of Lent

Monday of the First Week of Lent
Today's Readings can be found here.
Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J.

Where do We find the Lord?

Matthew 25: 31-46


When did we see you hungry? Surely we did not recognize you, Lord. With further reflection we might ask, in the caring for a person, where do we find Christ? When feeding someone who is hungry, is Christ in the one who is feeding or in the one who is being fed? Or, perhaps we find Christ in the very act of breaking bread with someone who is hungry. It is somewhat like the experience of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus who, at first, could not recognize the risen Lord. But when they sat down to table they recognized him in the breaking of the bread.



Dorothy Day once said, “… I look around at the tables filled with the unutterably poor who are going through their long-continuing crucifixion. It is most surely an exercise of faith to see Christ in each other. But it is through such exercise that we grow and the joy of our vocation assures us we are on the right path. The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.”