If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also, faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead. The words of today’s second reading remind me of an experience I had in my former parish. Once a month, a group of middle and high school age students, with adult chaperones, participated in a “Breakfast Run.” The group was assigned a safe Manhattan location on a weekend morning where they provided a hot breakfast and donated clothes to those who are either living on the streets or in low-rent single rooms. The hot meals, along with other items, were prepared prior to the run by the volunteers. At the location, tables...