Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the

son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to

pray for. Jesus clearly wants us to give to the poor.

This is a big part of what we've been meditating on by reflecting on the seventh commandment.

And the gospel is packed with Christ urging his followers

to be generous to those in want.

And there are plenty of people who are still poor today, plenty of people who don't have enough food, water, shelter, money.

And we must be generous to those people. The problem is, most of those people aren't in the developed world.

The people who are poor because of scarcity are still largely in the developing world and we have to be generous

but we can only be generous in those cases from a distance. But if we want to serve Christ, actually serve

him in the face of the poor, what are we supposed to do? If you see a homeless guy at a stoplight, it would be terribly irresponsible to just hand

him a thousand dollars cash.

Why?

Because that guy's problem probably isn't just that he doesn't have enough money.

It probably goes deeper than that.

In the developed world, in places like the US and Canada and a lot of Europe, poverty is different.

We have a type of poverty that can't be solved by money.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who

trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,

Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

Blessed art thou among women.

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