VI. Love For the Poor
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St. John Chrysostom vigorously recalls this: “Not to enable the poor to
share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. the goods we
possess are not ours, but theirs.”238 “The demands of justice
must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to
be offered as a gift of charity”:239
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
- Article 7 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
- VI. Love For the Poor
- Article 7 THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
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