The Enchiridion Of Indulgences - St. Patrick's Basilica

The Enchiridion Of Indulgences
Rom 12, 8. 10-11. 13: He who gives, in simplicity; . . . he who shows mercy, with
cheerfulness.... Love one another with fraternal charity, anticipating one another with honor.
Be not slothful in zeal; be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.... Share the needs of the saints,
practicing hospitality.
I Cor 13, 3: And if I distribute all my goods to feed the poor, . . . yet do not have charity, it
profits me nothing.
Gal 6, 10: While we have time, let us do good to all men, but especially to those who are of
the household of the faith.
Eph 5, 2: Walk in love, as Christ also loved us.
1 Thes 4, 9: You yourselves have learned from God to love one another.
Heb 13, 1: Let brotherly love abide in you.
Jas 1, 27: Religion pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to give aid to orphans
and widows in their tribulation and to keep oneself unspotted from this world. 8
1 Pt 1, 22: Now that your obedience to charity has purified your souls for a brotherly love
that is sincere, love one another heartily and intensely.
1 Pt 3, 8-9: Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, lovers of the brethren, merciful,
humble; not rendering evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but contrariwise, blessing; for unto this
were you called that you might inherit blessing.
2 Pt 1, 5. 7: Do you accordingly strive diligently to supply . . . your piety with fraternal love,
your fraternal love with charity.
1 Jn 3, 17-18: He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his
heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? My dear children, let us not love in
word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
II Vatican Council, Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, n. 8: Wherever there are people in
need of food and drink, clothing, housing, medicine, employment, education; wherever men
lack the facilities necessary for living a truly human life or are afflicted with serious distress
or illness or suffer exile or imprisonment, there Christian charity should seek them out and
find them, console them with great solicitude and help them with appropriate relief.... In order
that the exercise of charity on this scale may be unexceptionable in appearance as well as in
fact, it is altogether necessary to consider in one's neighbor the image of God in which he has
been created, and also Christ the Lord to whom is really offered whatever is given to a needy
person.
8 See Jas 2, 15-16.
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