St Vincent DE Paul
Mansfield, TX:
Contemplation — Accompanied by Justice
“There is no act of charity,” St. Vincent once wrote, “that is not accompanied by justice…” [ CCD II:68 ] We so often see the words “charity” and “justice” used together that we perhaps don’t often think enough about what these words mean, and what they mean for us to do in practice.
We know that charity, the greatest of the theological virtues , is love, and that our acts of charity are in turn the means by which we express and live this virtue: loving God and neighbor. [ CCC, 1822 ] But justice seems like a harder word…
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