Special Moment for Charity

During this season, therefore, the faithful should therefore enter into themselves and make a true judgment on their attitudes of mind and heart.  If they find some store of love’s fruit in their hearts, they must not doubt God’s presence within them.  If they would increase their capacity to receive so great a guest, they should practice greater generosity in doing good, with persevering charity.  If God is love, charity should know no limit, for God cannot be confined.
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Any time is the right time for works of charity, but these days of Lent provide a special encouragement.  Those who want to be present at the Lord’s Passover in holiness of mind and body should seek above all to win this grace, for charity contains all other virtues and covers a multitude of sins. 

— Pope Leo the Great (440–461)