Is there any question that almsgiving is the under-practiced, under-encouraged Lenten discipline when compared with prayer and fasting? (In this magazine’s 110-year-old archives, a search for the ...

COMMENTARY: Conversion means resisting the temptation to ‘sing more loudly’ when confronted head-on with the troubling reality of evil in the world. A young girl prays at St. Andrew's Ukrainian ...

Going to daily Mass? Check. Giving up coffee? Check. Practicing acts of charity? “Many of us are quick to make faithful resolutions regarding fasting and prayer,” says the Divine Word Missionaries ...

Giving alms to the poor seems to be a key tenet of many faiths. Here’s glimpse at a few: “Almsgiving is prayer, and it involves fasting. Almsgiving is a form of prayer because it is ‘giving to God,’ ...

Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “Almsgiving, coming to the aid of others brings us closer to God and can become an instrument of true conversion and reconciliation with Him and with our brothers,” says the ...

“[C]harity requires, first of all, an attitude of inner joy.” “Offering mercy cannot be a burden or a nuisance to get rid of quickly.” “[P]raise God through sacrifice and praise God with alms.” ...

The season of Lent officially kicked off last Wednesday, and while most of us are familiar with the common lent traditions, including no meat on Fridays, and maybe giving something up for the period.

A mother who has been part of a Catholic Relief Services’ program for family nutrition prepares beans for the family’s seven children at their home in Konjiko, Kenya, May 1, 2019. Lenten alms donated ...

The amount of public almsgiving has increased by 27 percent compared to a year before, Habibollah Asoudeh, deputy for development of people's participation of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, said ...