![]() ![]() They are those living paycheck to paycheck, one unexpected expense away from living on the street. The residents of shelters, relying on soup kitchens for their meals. The poor are the unemployed or underemployed. Perhaps the most conspicuous question, at least to my mind, is this who are the poor?Ī nonsensical query, isn't it? It's so obvious. But, as is so often the case with lessons taken from scripture, there is so much more going on than that seemingly straightforward line intimates. The Lord will hear and will respond to the prayers of the poor. Having heard this hymn within the context of the liturgy dozens of times, I am no less lifted by it's implied promise today than I was the first time I heard it. The melody is melancholy almost haunting. The Cry of the Poor, a hymn gleaned from the lines of Psalm 34, was penned by John Foley, S.J., in 1978.
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