Fritz Eichenberg’s engraving depicts
Dorothy Day’s understanding
of Christ in the poor from
Matthew 25 in the Bible
1. The Catechism of the Catholic Church
tells us in teaching 1397 that
the Eucharist commits us
to the poor.
2. Dorothy quoted
Fr. Lacouture:
“If we cannot see Jesus
in the poor man,
we surely cannot see Him
under the poverty-stricken
veils of bread.”
3. In both the Mass and in
sharing a meal
with a poor person
we are breaking bread
with the living Christ.
4. God seems tricky by hiding
where the world least suspects:
in bread and suffering people.
5. But God is not tricky
because God told us the
secrets of Presence flat out.
