CS 1256: Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy: Thursday

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

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Being a follower of Jesus Christ demands that we be His hands and His feet on this earth. We must demonstrate our love of Jesus Christ by serving those who are physically and spiritually poor. To help us in this work, the Church has defined seven works of corporal mercy and seven works of spiritual mercy. Let's learn about the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy together this week, and get to work being Jesus's hand and feet.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:39.6	Hey there, Sprouts, Today is Thursday, May 11th, 2020. This week we are talking about the corporal and the spiritual works of mercy. But before we get back to that, please join me in praying the Memorare, which we are learning as part of the Be a St. Kids Club. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Remember,
0:46.7	Oh, most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection
0:53.0	implored thy help or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
0:58.4	Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee, O virgins, a virgins, my mother.
1:05.1	To thee I come before thee I stand, sinful and sourful.
1:09.9	O mother of the word incarnate despise not my petitions,
1:14.3	but in your mercy hear and answer me. Amen. So we've already talked about the corporal works of
1:21.2	mercy where we care for people's bodily needs. And yesterday we saw the amazing example of St. Damien and Malachi. Today we're
1:31.0	going to talk about the spiritual works of mercy, where we care for people's spiritual needs.
1:39.3	Now, the church has oftentimes spoken about her work as being a field hospital, a field hospital.
1:47.7	So this is a reference to actually what happens during war.
1:51.9	You can imagine there's two armies fighting each other, kind of out in a big open plane.
1:58.3	There's no buildings or hospitals nearby. And yet, it's a battle so people are
2:04.4	being injured. So there needs to be a hospital presence there. And that is what the church is.
2:12.0	The church, as members of the church, we are like medics out there on the field. We're carrying around, you know,
2:19.5	little medicine pouches, and we have been trained in caring for people. And so, well,
2:25.6	people are out there living in the real world, fighting temptation, falling into sin, repenting.
2:31.6	We are there beside these people, helping them find healing through the
2:37.5	sacraments of the church, through what the goods that we have to share. And so the corporal
2:43.5	works of mercy, they encourage us to share what we have, to notice the needs of others, to give
2:49.6	our time and love to care for them.
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