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Feeding the hungry is one of the Corporal Works of Mercy. Pope Francis hosted a pizza meal for 1,500 people who are homeless.
Bus drivers
and volunteers deliver meals to children during the summer and over holiday breaks.
GOVERNMENT
is a means for citizens
to work for the common good, provide for people
who are poor, stop discrimination, and give all people access to resources.
1 How has a government
To set a table of plenty with enough
food for all requires four “legs” or groups. FAMILIES AND
CHURCH AND COMMUNITY
INDIVIDUALS have a BUSINESSES help our
ORGANIZATIONS help
responsibility to respect the economy grow, but must
families, gather people of
dignity of others and to work also contribute to the
faith, stop discrimination, build
to secure not only their own common good and reflect
community, confront injustice,
rights but also the rights of our values and priorities.
and make certain that public
others. Families can raise officials are accountable to
children who are committed to everyone.
service and justice.
3 What do the stores where
program helped people you know have enough to eat?
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2 What does your school do to help students who may be hungry? How do you learn about who is hungry in the world?
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you shop and the companies where your parents work do to end hunger?
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4 What does your family do to end hunger?
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When we gather as Catholics to
worship, we gather around a table to
celebrate Eucharist. . . . It is Christ’s
sacrificial meal that nourishes us so
that we can go forth and live the
Gospel as his disciples. The Catechism
of the Catholic Church insists, “Eucharist commits us to the poor. To
receive in truth the Body and Blood of Christ given up for us, we must
recognize Christ in the poorest” (CCC, 1397).
—A Place at the Table, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2002
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