Giving some money or a blanket or a sandwich to a homeless person is a good and laudable thing, but a Christian who considers the beggar a brother or sister will do more, said Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin.
The author’s point is once more to call his readers to faithfulness. If our ancestors in faith could expend these efforts, we who are capable of attaining the fullness of the promise surely cannot be less faithful than they.
Homeless need both a handout and a hand up, archbishop says
Giving some money or a blanket or a sandwich to a homeless person is a good and laudable thing, but a Christian who considers the beggar a brother or sister will do more, said Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin.