Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Almsgiving
This evolves from our prayers and our fasting.
Charity in all forms, your time, your talents, your treasures, whatever you can do to help further the spreading of the word and love of God.
”Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves.
Let us have charity and humility.
Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give.
For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.”
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney,
the Cure of Ars
“In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way?
For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty.
The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.”
St. John Chrysostom