Monday, November 27 : Saint Charles de Foucauld
How divinely good you are, O my God! If you had called the rich first of all, then the poor would not have dared draw near you. They would have thought they had to stand aside because of their poverty and would have watched you from a distance, letting the rich come around you. But you have called everyone to yourself, everyone: the poor, because you show them by this that, to the end of time, they are the first called, the chosen ones, the privileged; the rich because, on the one hand, they aren’t shy and, on the other, because it is up to them to become as poor as the poorest. If they wish, if they desire to become like you, if they are afraid of their wealth keeping them apart from you, they can in an instant become perfectly poor. How good you are! How rightly you have chosen the best way for calling around you in a single move all your children, without exception! And what balm you have applied to the hearts of the poor, the little ones, the despised of this world until the end of time, showing them from the day of your birth that they are your chosen ones, your preferred ones, the first to be called – called around you who wanted to become one of them and, from your cradle and all your life long, surrounded by them.
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