It is not as easy to be generous as it seems
How do you do it
Remember the Pizza experiment in Rome, which was difficult for some people
Remember buying lunch for that Old Women on Broadway
Remember offering Coffee and a Donut to someone outside of DD (who may be smoking a cigarette) and they tell you that they would rather have CASH
There is a (possibly “homeless”) woman eating a heaping plate of food at a program
What can you do
Why do anything
You could provide her with Zip-Lock bags, to take some food with her
You could offer her money, maybe include it an a bag of rosary beads, a prayer card, a bandana, chapstick
You should be prepared for a negative response (you don’t know this person, except based on how you judge her)
Maybe that you dress casually is to your benefit
In the past, there was a man eating a heaping plate of food and I engaged with him after wards at my bicycle
And it was good

Do you do this so that others will see it?
(you could always enclose a check, or cash in the offeratory basket anonomously)