The pure heart is a heart that is free,
free to give, to love until it hurts,
The pure heart is a heart that serves,
that loves God with undivided love.

The pure heart can easily see Christ
in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless
in the lonely, in the unwanted, in the unloved,
in the leper, in the alcoholic, in the man lying in the street
unwanted, unloved, uncared for, hungry....
He is not hungry for lack of a piece of bread,
he is hungry for love...
He is not naked just for lack of a piece of cloth,
he is naked because he has been stripped of human dignity...
He is not homeless just because he lacks a small house to live in,
his homelessness comes from being abandoned by all...
unwanted, unloved, uncared for, neglected...
He has forgotten the meaning of human love, human joy, human touch.

To be able to see Christ in the distressing disguise of these,
our brothers and sisters, we need a pure heart...
a pure heart is free to serve,
a pure heart is free to love...
and these, the poor, our brothers and sisters,
are the hope of salvation for mankind,
for at the hour of our death we are going to be judged
according to what we have done to them!

Just as we need pure eyes to see Jesus in the appearance of bread,
we need pure eyes to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor...
the suffering, the unwanted, the unloved,
those people society has discarded as useless -
they are Jesus.