Mark 14:7
The Poor Always Among Us
7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
Matthew 28:20
Jesus is With Us Until the End of the Ages
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Two thousand years ago Jesus told us that the poor we would will always have in our societies, and you can help them any time you want...But you will not always have Me on earth...And of course, He was right...
He did die on the cross, resurrect, live again on earth for forty days, and then He ascended to heaven....We have lost His physical Presence on earth...And so we must seek Him in Spirit, for He is always with us...
The poor are still here...The Martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero said this about the poor and about seeking Jesus, “We must not seek the Child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs...We must seek Him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.”..