Peter Maurin, co-counder of the Catholic Workher movement, wrote many of his famous 'easy essays' when he was spreading the word about the Catholic Worker.  The movement espouses a radical type of Christian hospitality that offers housing and food to the poor.  This movement was founded by Maurin along with Dorothy Day.  Their first house of hospitality was opened in New York in 1933.  There are now several worker houses all across the country.  Members of the Worker communities live in voluntary poverty and care for all who come to their doors, as space allows.  In Milwaukee, there is a Catholic Worker house on 21st Street and Highland Aveune.  It's called Casa Maria.  Here's one of the 'easy essays':

God want us
to be our brother's keeper.
To feed the hungry, to cloth the naked, to shelter the homeless,
to instruct the ignorant, at a personal sacrifice, is what God wants us to do.
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake
is what we carry with us when we die. 
As Jean Jacques Rousseau says: 
"When a man dies he carries in his clutched hands only that
which he gave away."