Thought for the Day – 8 August – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)
More About Almsgiving
“We should often read and contemplate passages in praise of charity and almsgiving which are contained in the Sacred Scriptures.
“Give that which remains as alms and behold, all things are clean to you” (Lk 11:41).
“Alms delivereth from death and the same is that which purgeth away sins and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting” (Tob 12:9).
“Redeem thou thy sins with alms and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor” (Dan 4:24).
“My sons, rob not the poor man of his livelihood; force not the eyes of the needy to turn away” (Ecclus 4:11).
“Water quenches a flaming fire and alms atones for sins” (Ecclus 3:29).
“Be merciful, therefore, even as your Father is merciful … Give and it shall be given to you … For with what measure you measure, it shall be measures to you ” (Lk 6:36-38).
“For judgement is without mercy to him who has not shown mercy ,,, And if a brother or a sister be naked and in want of daily food and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ yet you do not give them what is necessary for the body, what does it profit? ” So faith too, unless it has works is dead in itself” (Js 2:13-17).”
Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE:
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