“Son, remember that you received your goods while you were alive.” Lk. 16:19-31

Jesus does not present us with a wicked rich man or a perfect poor man. It presents us with something much more disturbing: an indifferent rich man and an ignored poor man. The sin of the rich man was not what he had, but having done nothing with it. Every day he passed by Lazarus and decided not to see him. Lazarus has a name; the rich man did not. Because for God, the one who suffers has a face, and the one who selfishly closes himself off gradually loses his identity. The true abyss does not appear after death; it is built in life, when the heart becomes accustomed not to have pity, not to share the goods received. The Gospel does not ask us for heroism, but for concrete gestures of mercy and solidarity, now, and with those who are at our door.