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Darlene
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Posted: Thu Feb 1st, 2007 09:39 pm |
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Can someone give me a brief explanation of these works of mercy and where I can go learn more about them?
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CajunRick
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Posted: Thu Feb 1st, 2007 09:58 pm |
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Darlene wrote: Can someone give me a brief explanation of these works of mercy and where I can go learn more about them?
The Catechism is always the best place to start. The Works of Mercy are listed under the seventh commandment:
2447 The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. The corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead. Among all these, giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice pleasing to God:
He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none and he who has food must do likewise. But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you. If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
Sections 2443-2449 cover the Church's teachings on the Works of Mercy.
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Fri Feb 2nd, 2007 12:50 am |
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Darlene, the idea of the works of mercy comes in great part from Matthew 25, where Jesus explains what God will be looking for in the heart of each of us at the last judgment. What he lays out there are what we call the corporal works of mercy. Later on, the Church added in the spiritual works of mercy for those people, who, like me, are more “inward.”
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SBC2RCC
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Posted: Fri Feb 2nd, 2007 04:43 pm |
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Matthew 25 has always struck me so hard. It gave me trouble as a "once saved, always saved" Baptist. When I came across a list of these works of mercy in a booklet about the Divine mercy devotion, I really liked it. Or course, the great thing is putting these teachings into practice.
Great topic, thanks!
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(Formerly on CHN Forum as "Pilgrim Paul"
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