Something for Sunday Morning

"It is absurd and disgraceful for one to live magnificently and luxuriously when so many go hungry."

St. Clement of Alexandria

(And lest you think Clement was a kill-joy early Socialist, he was one of the first thinkers to say that Jesus's harsh instructions to the rich young man ("give away all you have"--Mark 10:17-31) doesn't condemn wealth itself; it merely condemns the "vain thoughts about wealth, the excitement and distress related to it, the worries that are the thorns of existence and that suffocate the seeds of life.")