This Sunday Jesus tells a powerful story about the rich man who ignored the poor man, Lazarus, at his doorstep. The story helps us to see ourselves of how we should be alert to see and care for all those who are in grave need, we may do well to recognize that all of us are Lazarus. To be more precise, we have been in his predicament in a spiritual if not a physical way. Without our redemption by Christ we were even worse off than Lazarus. We had no external sores but within we suffered the effects of sin. We lacked proper nourishment, not of mere scraps, but of the holy body and blood of the Lord. We were outside the gate of the Church, and without Christ we would never have been able to cross the threshold of his house here on earth in order one day to enter his eternal home in heaven. God took pity on us, and so all that God has done for us should be the motive for our being generous to those in need, kind to those who are without comfort, and loving toward everyone as God is toward us. Our holy mass of thanksgiving should move us always and everywhere to treat everyone with the kind of generous love which God has shown to us in the person of his Son, our Priest and Redeemer.