Consider making a resolution to use what wealth you have generously this week. Pray together the words of Gaudium et Spes. The All part is its final line.
LEADER: Today there is an inescapable duty to make ourselves the neighbor of every individual without exception.
ALL: Let us hold to the gospel, and join forces with all who love and practice justice.
LEADER: To take positive steps to help a neighbor whom we encounter, whether that neighbor be an elderly person abandoned by everyone, a foreign worker who suffers the injustice of being despised.
ALL: Let us hold to the gospel, and join forces with all who love and practice justice.
LEADER: A refugee, an illegitimate child wrongly suffering for a sin of which the child is innocent.
ALL: Let us hold to the gospel, and join forces with all who love and practice justice.
LEADER: Or a starving human being who awakens our conscience by calling to mind the words of Christ: ‘As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me’” (Matthew 25.40; #27).
ALL: Amen.