Look carefully at the outcast. Your salvation might very well depend on one of them.

When a well dressed group of students pretended to have heart attacks in the hallways of the Port Authority – the only ones who reached out to them were the homeless people.

When we realized what a financial pickle we were going to be in, we didn’t look to the bankers to see how they coped. We looked to the poor – and their willingness to share their meager possessions which makes them more resilient than we are.

It may be that the person who stands outside the circle of proper religious life, the one who is unclean and cursed, is the only one who can save us from the lawful condemnation that confronts us because of our actions. At least that’s what St. Augustine argues.

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