VI. Love For the Poor

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Beginning with the Old Testament, all kinds of juridical measures (the jubilee
year of forgiveness of debts, prohibition of loans at interest and the keeping
of collateral, the obligation to tithe, the daily payment of the day-laborer,
the right to glean vines and fields) answer the exhortation of Deuteronomy:
“For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you,
‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor in
the land.'”²⁴⁸ Jesus makes these words his own: “The poor you
always have with you, but you do not always have me.”²⁴⁹ In so
doing he does not soften the vehemence of former oracles against “buying
the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals . . .,” but
invites us to recognize his own presence in the poor who are his
brethren:²⁵⁰

PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
  - Article 7 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
    - VI. Love For the Poor

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team