From the beginning, Christianity practiced an option for the poor: a rationale for noticing and responding lovingly to those poverty-stricken and excluded who fall by the wayside. It developed from a deep reflection on the teaching of Jesus about caring for the lost and rejected and became a life-practice. Monasteries too became the catalyst for hospitals, hospices and relief services. Over time this teaching adapted to large urban needs and the desolation of the poor in industrialisation. In the Christian vision the poor cannot be ignored because Christ has identified with them. The mystical and the social are incarnate together. They long to be connected to the experience of contemplation through both scripture and the silence of our inner room, leading to metanoia under the compassionate gaze of Christ.
The compassionate gaze of Christ
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