Things I Really Don’t Want to Hear

“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor” (St. Basil the Great).

“The rich exist for the sake of the poor. The poor exist for the salvation of the rich.” – St. John Chrysostom

I say I believe the Church’s teaching, but you wouldn’t know it by what I do.