{"id":366,"date":"2018-01-14T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2018-01-13T18:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:04:41","slug":"why-be-charitable-because-of-faith-and-hope-in-my-lord-and-my-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/why-be-charitable-because-of-faith-and-hope-in-my-lord-and-my-god","title":{"rendered":"Why should I be Charitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">My reflection for today: Faith, Hope and Charity are so interrelated.\u00a0 Every day, my Lord and my God asks me to be charitable,\u00a0 to care for the welfare of my fellow human being. He asks me to love her or him without ifs, buts or other qualifiers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask, do I listen to my Lord and my God, and aim to act accordingly? Because I believe in my Lord and my God, meaning I thankfully have faith in His existence. 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