We don't serve the poor with paternalism, helping him or her as if reaching down from above to someone below. This is not what God wants, but rather he wants us to do this as one brother or sister to another. This is my brother or sister, this is Christ; and, with Christ, I am not reaching down from above to someone below, rather I am reaching up from below, to serve him above.
ST. OSCAR ROMERO Through the Year With Oscar Romero: Daily Meditations (DLT, 2006)
