FAITHWATCH DailyGospel.org/ Saint Gregory Nazianzen Gospel commentary: “When you give a banquet, invite the poor”

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Let us keep an eye on our neighbor’s well-being, whether in good health or struck by sickness, with as much concern as we do our own. For ‘we are all one in the Lord’ (Rom 12:5) …. What the members of a body are for each other, every one of us is for each of the others. So we shouldn’t either neglect or abandon those who have fallen into the state of weakness that haunts us all. … it is better to sympathize with the misfortunes of our poor neighbors … They are in God’s image just as we are ….

Click here for DailyGospel.org; Saint Gregory Nazianzen Gospel commentary: “When you give a banquet, invite the poor”- On love for the poor, 8, 14 ; PG 35, 867, 875