There is a culture among the poorest of the poor, something I came to know almost thirty years ago working with homeless youth in Times Square, NY. There is a care and concern that many street people show for one another.
So often we think of them as “other”. “They’re not like us,” so many think with a terrible condescension.
In truth, they are the human face of Jesus, who tells us in Matthew 25 that our eternal destiny is tied to our response to the poorest and least among us.
This Sunday is Gaudete Sunday in Advent, the day we rejoice that our penitential season is half over. We do not look toward the Nativity yet, as the Church still focuses on the second coming of Jesus to judge the living and the dead. As we rejoice, we do well to contemplate the following short film, and the life-changing perspective it offers.
I’ve never seen anything like it in beauty. O Henry would have been proud.
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H/T Patrick Madrid and Deacon Greg Kandra
Coming Home 
Thank you so much Dr. Nadal for posting. Will share on FB. May we all be merciful to all of our sisters and brothers on this earth as Our Lord told us. God bless, Dr. Nadal. Happy Gaudete Sunday. Just wrote comment on Youtube: Beautiful film. Thanks to those who wrote, produced, and presented it. Regarding the God comments: God is Love, the kind of love that gives all, nothing held back. Man unto himself alone can never aspire to that, but with God all things are possible. If we let God, our Creator, reign in our hearts, we can then cooperate with His love, growing in our ability to give all. In the end we must all surrender to Him to experience His Love to its fullest and thereby also giving our all.
Thanks for this post. I placed it on Facebook as an example of Christ’s Holy Fools.
Life changing . . . shared on Facebook
Will be sharing on Facebook in the morning, Beautiful! Thank you! — Rosemary