Chapter 53: The reception of guests (paragraphs 1-4)

The greatest care should be taken to give a warm reception to the poor and to pilgrims, because it is in them above all others that Christ is welcomed. (From para. 4 of Ch. 53 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

"The poor and the pilgrims" represent for me a lack of pretense, a way of being that is more transparent. Freed of being encumbered, the heart can shine.