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World Day for the Poor - Caritas in Action!

Webmaster • November 16, 2020
The Directory for Catechesis states that ‘charitable action is an integral part of the catechetical proclamation’ and ‘[t]he need for an organic approach to pastoral care requires the coordination of catechesis with the other activities of evangelisation.’  

In his Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti, On Fraternity And Social Friendship, Pope Francis writes:
“Social love” makes it possible to advance towards a civilization of love, to which all of us can feel called. Charity, with its impulse to universality, is capable of building a new world. No mere sentiment, it is the best means of discovering effective paths of development for everyone. Social love is a “force capable of inspiring new ways of approaching the problems of today’s world, of profoundly renewing structures, social organizations and legal systems from within”. (183)
Charity is at the heart of every healthy and open society, yet today “it is easily dismissed as irrelevant for interpreting and giving direction to moral responsibility”. Charity, when accompanied by a commitment to the truth, is much more than personal feeling, and consequently need not “fall prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions”. Indeed its close relation to truth fosters its universality and preserves it from being “confined to a narrow field devoid of relationships”. Otherwise, it would be “excluded from the plans and processes of promoting human development of universal range, in dialogue between knowledge and praxis”. Without truth, emotion lacks relational and social content. Charity’s openness to truth thus protects it from “a fideism that deprives it of its human and universal breadth”. (184)

Caritas in Action! Briefings 11 - 12, with the Contents headings as follows (the full documents can be viewed below): 
Caritas in Action! Briefing 11 – November 2020 
11.1 Participation in charity is an integral part of ‘the process of evangelisation’ 
11.2 ‘…charitable action is an integral part of the catechetical proclamation’   
11.3 ‘…coordination of catechesis with the other activities of evangelisation’   
11.4 Instruction "The pastoral conversion of the Parish community in the service of the evangelising mission of the Church"   
11.5 Weaving together the processes and relationships for building ‘a civilisation of love’  
Caritas in Action! Briefing 12 – November 2020 
12.1 Exploring the organisational and relational processes of the Catholic Church in its mission 
- The warp and the weft of the Catholic Church community in England and Wales (NB. Purely illustrative.) 
12.2 Participating in the organisational and relational processes at Diocesan and Parish levels 
12.3 ‘“Social love” makes it possible to advance towards a civilization of love’ 
12.4 The main roles of the different levels of Caritas   
12.5 Learning to become ‘witnesses to the faith’ in the twenty-first century  

 
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