Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 7 | A Daily Lenten Thought

I I A Daily Lenten Thought tl I By REV J. J ELLIOTT ROSS Catholic Professor nd Associate Administrative I xv Director tho School of Religion State University of Iowa I Most o of us 1 suppose have o imn Imagined in how overjoyed u wo we should ha have hac c been Leen a al at t the Iho privilege I of ur knowing Christ face faco tl to faco face during Ills life UCo on un earth Of OC course cours wo we nl al always R imagine that thai wo hould should ha have havo u been n e among Ills His faithful followers never ne among I those who II persecuted l Him But nut is it not a u. wa waste te of or time to lo dream un a about o 1 what cannot b be and to nC neglect th the opportunities we ha have of oC knowing and serving ln ier Christ For Christ Himself has lias told us that thal Ills His presence I is perpetuated perpetuate amun among us Whenever er we feed and clothe the poor w we arc ure feeding ec ln and clothing Christ For tho tIme most of us however howe poverty po I Is just as ns effective a H. disguise of oC Christ as tho limo human form forni formin in hi which Ho to hid Hi 1118 divinity l while on un earth And II mul therein perhaps Is iR au an indication of or how wo should havo have treated Christ had wo lived Jived in Judea during Ills lifetime there Sur Surely I If Ir we wo ha had an any deep realization of oC Christs Christ's presence in tho the poor we t should hould servo serve them ho u o eagerly that poverty Jo would woul d disappear 1111 ar Certainly after nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen hundred years yeal's of C Christianity there there- ou ought hl not riot to tobe tobe be he so 50 many In n absolute need of or the necessaries of or life Copyright 1030 NEA Service Inc