Charity

Charity is, above all, friendship.
For one who is hungry, it is a plate of soup.  
For one who is sad, it is a consoling word.
For one who is evil, it is the patience that we must achieve to be of assistance.
For one who is desperate, it is the heartfelt aid.
For one who is ignorant, it is an unpretentious teaching.
For one who is ungrateful, it is to forget.
For one who is ill, it is a personal visit.
For the student, it is a learning opportunity.
For the children, it is constructive support.
For the elderly, it is a brotherly shoulder.
For the antagonist, it is the silence.
For a friend, it is the stimulus.
For one who is misguided, it is the understanding.
For one who is proud, it is humility.
For one who is hotheaded, it is calm.
For one who is lazy, it is work without imposition.
For the impulsive, it is serenity.
For the thoughtless, it is tolerance.
For the slanderer, it is a kind remark.
For the disinherited of Earth, it is a tender expression.
Charity is love, in an incessant and increased manifestation.
It is the Sun of a thousand faces, shining upon all; it is the genii of a thousand hands, aiding,
indistinctly in the work of goodness…
...wherever you may be, among the just or the unjust, the good or the evil, happiness or unhappiness...
wherever the Spirit of the Lord is present,
there will the perpetual clarity for the benefit of the entire human race be scattered.

Emmanuel/ Francisco C. Xavier 

Never forget that charity is the heart in your gesture, and, wherever there is charity, there we will find the presence of God.

 (Translated by: J. Korngold & M. Levinson – USA – 2002)

Message of the Month

The Alliance between Science and Religion

Science and religion are the two levers of human intelligence, one revealing the laws of the material world, the other revealing those of the moral world. But seeing that these laws have the same principle, which is God, they cannot contradict themselves. 

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