The face of Christ is the face of the poor sufferer, who is among us in the person of the poor, the suffering and the marginalized.

“Son, remember that you received your good things in life and Lazarus, in turn evil. Now, however, he finds solace here and you are in agony “(Luke 16, 25)
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus presents two extreme sides of human life: a sad face and the face of supreme happiness. The face of fleeting happiness and the face of sorrow and suffering.

We, here on earth, we look around us and see how hurt deepens inequalities, we find extremely rich people who do not know what to do with so much money. On the other hand, we have extremely poor, for whom it was enough to eat the crumb that falls from the tables of those who have everything to make their life a little better.

In a world of so much arrogance, arrogance and greed, we cannot deny that this world we live in is unfair. Unjust human social order, a world that lets some people have everything they want, while others do not have the minimum necessary to survive.

Jesus did not curse wealth or exalt misery, but He puts the condition that, in this world, He disguises himself and is the poorest among the poorest of us and turns His eyes from the one that is arrogant, the miser and opulent, the one who has everything, but has all but forgotten the poor, the needy and the Lazarus of old.

Christ is in all the Lazaruses around us. The face of Christ is the face of the poor sufferer, the face of Christ is the face of one who has nothing to eat, has nothing to drink, who is sick, who is sick, who is indigent.

The face of Christ, suffers, opposes the face of the man who has everything and does not remember his brothers. It is not punishment, it is the result: in the Kingdom of God things are reversed, while the poor, here on this earth, only get  contempt and offense, in the eternal Kingdom there is a very special place to the poor, the marginalized and those who are classified as disqualified; they all have a place of honor in the kingdom of heaven. Whereas, who did not remember the poor, who did not take care of them and behaved in a proud and boastful way and has no place in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of God begins to happen here, it is a kingdom of justice and truth. Justice is, in everything we do, not forgetting the poor. As they [poor] need us, need our love, need our attention and, above all, of our sharing!

You may not be as poor and as indigent as the poor of the Gospel, but you have a little to share with those who have nothing, and if you have very little, share this little, but above all, do not forget to give yourself in favor of another.

In the Kingdom of God, in his arms and on his father’s bosom Abraham,there is a place for all the Lazaruses and for all those who took care of the wounded and their needs.

God bless you!