In Haiti and other tsunami. "Charity begins with oneself" Tell you at the time of giving. I do not understand you to say that just now. You can call it common sense, you can see a virtue Masonic rituals because indeed there are some phrases which appear generous recommending think first of themselves and their families. You can also hear this advice from the lips of Master Martin, Rosicrucians and others. You can recognize a moral stance in fact very common, societal, and perhaps even bourgeois.
But it is not Christian, it is not charity, it's just for charity and mercy. In a move socially upright, one who gives to those who did not. It is a movement from top to bottom, not a horizontal movement of perfect brotherhood. For paradoxically, it is spiritually the reverse happens: a purely horizontal movement and devoid of verticality. Perhaps as a movement concerned. Christian charity is the opposite of that. It is, in exteriority, a completely horizontal movement of brotherhood, where the giver does not see the owner of what he gives, he does not create a good conscience with where he is not seen to . Where he received the impression. And that is why in the interior, charity is vertical.
the theological level, St. Thomas Aquinas gave one of the most perfect definition of Christian love (agape ), which, remember, is a theological virtue, ie a Under the act of human s'inhabite divine act. Charity, says St. Thomas, it is not superfluous to give her is to share its needed. The Father who gave His Son to save the world does not give its superfluous. Son dying on the cross does not give its superfluous. And when The Epistle of John tells us that no more greater love than to lay down his life for his friends , it speaks not to give unnecessary. I suppose if Jesus came back today, he could be heard from Christians who say that charity begins at home itself. It is possible that the sustained confusion around the meaning of charity that does basically is make believe that we practice what the truth is that we do not practice. Jesus is not a warm clinging to his slippers. This is a radical, often inaudible, rendering the consensus over the centuries, because of this kind of slippage.
But another aspect of charity, perhaps the most crazy, it also accept without hesitation to share the meal of one who gives necessary by inviting us to his table, even when the person to whom he gives is not in need. I saw in Bolivia infinitely more charitable than in Western countries. It often shares the necessary and not superfluous. It is embraced in miserable homes. We share the meal people who do not know what will be tomorrow. While it may be helped, but they, the charitable. Bolivia, Argentina, very many small charitable priests were murdered on the steps of their church, by dictatorships like Banzer, while the Cardinals racist supped at the table of their killers, probably saying that charity begins with oneself. These little martyrs priests will never be recognized as saints, as you see, they had a big flaw, that of supporting a theology condemned by the church: the theology of liberation. (E-mail, February 6, 2010)
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