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Caritas, The Seven Acts of Mercy, pen and ink drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559. [a] Works of mercy (sometimes known as acts of mercy) are practices considered meritorious in Christian ethics. The practice is popular in the Catholic Church as an act of both penance and charity.
Love can have other meanings in English, but as used in the New Testament it almost always refers to the virtue of caritas. Many times when charity is mentioned in English-language bibles, it refers to "love of God", which is a spiritual love that is extended from God to man and then reflected by man, who is made in the image of God, back to God.
Pope Benedict explained that God is love, and that man is made in God's image and is therefore made for love. This love grows to the extent that man receives God's love: "we have to receive for us to give". Thus he stressed the "importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable ...
Caritas Social Action Network or CSAN is a British not-for-profit social welfare and social justice organisation. It is a service of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and a member of both Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Europa .
The Torah requires that 10 percent of a Jew's income be allotted to righteous deeds or causes, regardless if the receiving party is rich or poor. [ citation needed ] However, if one regards Judaism in its wider modern meaning, acts of charity can go far beyond the religious prescriptions of tzedakah and also beyond the wider concept of ethical ...
The theory of human caring, first developed by Watson in 1979, is patient care that involves a more holistic treatment for patients. As opposed to just using science to care for and heal patients, at the center of the theory of human caring is the idea that being more attentive and conscious during patient interactions allows for more effective and continuous care with a deeper personal ...
Caritas Romania consists of the national office located in Bucharest as well as of 10 regional, autonomous Caritas organisations in Romania. They work in four dioceses and two archdioceses of the Latin Church and in three eparchies and one archeparchy of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church .
Caritas Internationalis (Latin for ' Charity International ') is a confederation of 162 national Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. [7]