Although he is the Lord, and a real lord who has no need of our goods, yet he has deigned to be hungry in his poor so that we might do something for him. “I was hungry and you gave me to eat,” he says. “Lord, when did we see you hungry?” “When you did it to one of the least of mine, you did it to me.” [See Matthew 25:35-37, 40.] In a word, let everyone hear and consider worthily how great the merit is for having fed the hungry Christ, and how great the crime is for having scorned the hungry Christ.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Sermons 60.11.11
