desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.
So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.”
And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.