8 If then this be so, what must be their repentance who have not done thereafter? How must they now reproach themselves! We might have had in heaven what we have now lost in earth. The enemy has broken up our house; but could he break heaven open? He has killed the servant who was set to guard; but could he kill the Lord who would have kept them, “where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.” How many now are saying, “There we might have had, and hid our treasures safe, where after a little while we might have followed them securely.
Why have we not hearkened to our Lord? Why have we despised the admonitions of the Father, and so have experienced the invasion of the enemy?” If then this be good counsel, let us not be slow in taking heed to it; and if what we have must be transported, let us transfer it into that place, from whence we cannot lose it. What are the poor to whom we give, but our carriers, by whom we convey our goods from earth to heaven? Give then: you are but giving to your carrier, he carries what you give to heaven.
How, do you say, does he carry it to heaven? For I see that he makes an end of it by eating. No doubt, he carries it, not by keeping it, but by making it his food. What? Have you forgotten, “Come, you blessed of My Father, receive the kingdom; for I was an hungred, and you gave Me meat:” and, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of Mine, you did it to Me. If you have not despised the beggar that stands before you, consider to Whom what you gave him has come. “Inasmuch,” says he, “as you did it to one of the least of Mine, you did it to Me.” He has received it, who gave you wherewith to give. He has received it, who in the end will give His Own Self to you.
Source: Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (New Advent)