{"id":3349,"date":"2018-02-19T23:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:06:52","slug":"catholic-faithwatch-almsgiving-lent-the-final-judgment-john-paul-ii-general-audience-wednesday-march-28-1979-vaticanva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/catholic-faithwatch-almsgiving-lent-the-final-judgment-john-paul-ii-general-audience-wednesday-march-28-1979-vaticanva\/","title":{"rendered":"CATHOLIC FAITHWATCH: “[Almsgiving, Lent, the Final Judgment] – John Paul II General Audience, Wednesday, March 28, 1979” – VaticanVa"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Only with a total attitude \u2014 in his relationship with God … himself and … his neighbor \u2014 does man reach conversion and remain in the state of conversion. ‘Alms’ … has a meaning … decisive for this conversion. … recall the image of the Last Judgment that Christ gave us: ‘… I was hungry and you gave Me food. I was thirsty and you gave Me drink … a stranger and you welcomed Me. … naked and you clothed Me … sick and you visited Me … in prison and you came to Me. … * * * Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me’ (Mt 25:35-40). … the Fathers of the Church will then say with St Peter Chrysologus: ‘The poor man’s hand is the treasury of Christ, since Christ receives everything that the poor man receives’ (Sermo VIII, 4), and with St. Gregory of Nazianzus: ‘The Lord of all things wants mercy, not sacrifice; and we give it through the poor’ (De patuperum amore, XI). … this opening to others … expressed by ‘help,’ by ‘sharing’ food, a glass of water, a good word, consolation, a visit, precious time, etc., this interior gift offered to the other man, arrives directly at Christ, directly at God. It decides the meeting with Him. It is conversion. … many texts in the Gospel … confirm this … also in the whole of Scripture. ‘Alms’ understood according to the Gospel, according to the teaching of Christ, has a definitive, decisive meaning in our conversion to God. If alms be lacking, our life does not yet converge fully towards God. …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Only with a total attitude \u2014 in his relationship with God … himself and … his neighbor \u2014 does man reach conversion and remain in the state of conversion. ‘Alms’ … has a meaning … decisive for this conversion. … recall the image of the Last Judgment that Christ gave us: ‘… I was hungry and you gave Me food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4,171,305,133,73,382],"tags":[608,607,10,11,66,173,306,166,606,104,383,89,21],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic","category-catholic-faith","category-christian-charity","category-christian-life","category-faithwatch","category-feature-article","category-lent","tag-alms","tag-almsgiving","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-faith","tag-christian","tag-christian-charity","tag-christian-life","tag-faith-watch","tag-final-judgment","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-lent","tag-saint-pope-john-paul-ii","tag-vatican"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/St-John-Paul-II-300.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevencwelsh.info\/faith-central\/catholic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}