"Allow the Poor to Enter..."

"Only together, only by becoming a single Body in which even the most fragile participate with full dignity, are we the Body of Christ, the Church of God. This happens when the fire that Jesus came to bring burns away the prejudices, cautions, and fears that still marginalize those who bear the poverty of Christ written in their history. Let us not exclude the Lord from our churches, our homes, and our lives. Let us instead allow the poor to enter, and then we will also make peace with our own poverty, the poverty we fear and deny when we seek tranquility and security at all costs" (Pope Leo XIV).