Charity

1. Definition (1/8/14)
1. True love is the willingness to sacrifice oneself for the benefit of the one loved. (1/21/13)
2. "focusing on the other"- Bill Donohue (1/8/14)
2. Forced "love" is no love.
3. When it all comes down to it, there are only two things that we can ultimately "love." We can only ultimately "love" God or Self. I use the word "love" in quotations because Self "love" is not true love. But even so, we don't even "love" many of the things we say we "love." What we actually "love" is our Self and more specifically our Self having the things we say we "love." When we say we love ice cream  we really don't love ice cream itself. What we really "love" is our Self having the pleasure of eating ice cream. If we really loved ice cream itself than we would never eat it and we would do everything we could to protect it from being eaten or otherwise destroyed by others. When we say a man loves money, he really doesn't love money itself. What he really loves is him Self having money. When we say a man loves sex, he really doesn't love sex itself. What he really loves is him Self having sex. Now, when we say that a man "loves" a women there are two possibilities. He either "loves" him Self having sex with or otherwise enjoying the company of the woman or he truly loves the woman herself. If he truly loves the women herself, than he can only do so out of his ultimate love for God who is true love and therefor the source of all true love. (4/24/13)
4. “Love does not mean to have, to own, to possess. It means to be had, to be owned, to be possessed. It is the giving of oneself for another. That is why we speak of arrows and darts of love – something that wounds. And the day men forget that love is synonymous with sacrifice, they will ask what kind of God is it who asks for mortification and self-denial. ‘Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’” Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Wartime Prayer Book) (5/18/13)
5. "Real charity doesn't mean giving away someone else’s money." -Doug Bandow (8/8/11)