Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them; and them that labor, as being yourselves also in the body. (Heb. xiii. 3.)
Visiting the Sick and Burying the Dead
BE NOT slow to visit the sick: for by these things thou shalt be confirmed in love. (Ecclus. vii. 39.)
When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. (Tob. xii. 12.)
And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon Me. For the poor you have always with you: but Me you have not always. For she in pouring this ointment upon My body, hath done it for My burial. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memory of her. (Matt. xxvi. 10-13.)
Almsdeeds
HE THAT hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, bu: in deed, and in truth. In this we know that we are of the truth: and in His sight shall persuade our hearts. (1 John. iii. 17-19.)
Give, and it shall be given unto you. (Luke vi. 38.)
Acceptable is the man that showeth mercy and lendeth (Ps. cxi, v.)
Then shall the king say to them that shall be on His right hand: Come, ye blessed of My Father, posses you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me to drink; I was stranger, and you took Me in: naked, and you covered Me: sick, and you visited Me: I was in prison, and ye
