Let acts of kindness be our delight and let us be filled with those foods that will nourish us for eternity. Let us be happy and giving food to the poor whose hunger is satisfied by our gift. Let us be joyful in clothing those whose nakedness we cover with necessary garments. Let our humanity be experienced by those who are sick in bed, the weak who are feeble, exiles in their hardship, orphans who are without resources, and lonely widows in their grief. There is no one who cannot be generous in doing some small thing to help such people. Income is never too small when the heart is large; the measure of kindness and mercy is not dependent on great wealth.
SAINT LEO THE GREAT Lenten Sermons 2.4
