Charity And Salvation

De judicii enim tempore adventuque commemorat, quo fideles ab infidelibus separabit, atque ab infructuosis fructuosa discernet, haedos ab agnis, et in dextera ac sinistra collocans unumquemque, digna aut bonitatis aut malitiae suae sede constituet: indicans se in minimis suis, id est, iis qui sibi cum humilitatis suae exspectatione famulentur, et esurientibus ali, et sitientibus potari, et peregrinantibus confoveri, et nudis contegi, et infirmis visitari, et sollicitis consolari. Ita enim in universorum fidelium corporibus mentibusque transfunditur, ut haec humanitatis officia, aut gratiam suam impensa mereantur aut offensa negata commoveant. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, In Evangelium Matthaei Commentarius, Cap XXIX

The Lord brings to mind the judgement of the coming time, when He shall separate the faithful and the unfaithful, and distinguish the fruitful from the unfruitful, the kids from the lambs, and on the right and left gather each one, those worthy of goodness or wickedness at his seat, showing himself in his little ones, that is, to those who shall serve Him in the expectation of His humility, and give food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, welcome to the wanderer, covering to the naked, who shall visit the sick and comfort the distressed. Thus even in the bodies and the minds of all the faithful He is transported, that these offices of charity merit either the giving of grace or, with offence denying it, distress. 1 Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 29 1 Mt 25.31-46