And when people shame you by refusing you alms, you should give thanks to God for that, because in recompense for shame we receive great honor before the judgement seat of our Lord Jesus Christ. And you should kknow that shame is imputed not to the one who suffers it, but to the one who inflicts it. And alms are the inheritance and the justice due the poor which our Lord Jesus Christ acquired for us. You who labor to acquire alms, then, have a great reward and also enrich those who give to you; for everything that people leave behind in the world will perish, but for the charity and almsgiving they've practiced they will have their reward from the Lord.
St. Francis of Assisi
Rule of 1221
Chapter IX
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