October 23, 2010 – Catechism 557-560

We just got off of a retreat, that is why these are coming late, in which we talked about the lives of Saints.  This visual of the poor and the children of Jerusalem paints a great picture of what many of these Saints gave their lives for.  Throughout the stories, they all gave their lives to help those that the world did not want to.  In one instance of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati, after he died, the streets were lined with the poor people that he had helped or was helping.  His family did not expect or even know really what he had been doing until the streets were lined with the poor.  Here we see Christ entering the city not to official pomp and celebration but to the crowds of children and poor.