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    This document discusses seeing Jesus in those living in poverty based on passages from Vincent de Paul. It contains readings, hymns, and prayers focused on serving Christ by serving the poor. Vincent de Paul believed the confraternities' purpose was accomplishing Christ's desire that Christians practice charity and mercy, as Jesus said "what you have done for the least of these, you have done for me." The Association of Charity was founded to honor Christ by feeding and loving the poor as He loved us. In serving the poor, one serves Jesus Christ, as God accepts services done for the poor as done for Himself.

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    This document discusses seeing Jesus in those living in poverty based on passages from Vincent de Paul. It contains readings, hymns, and prayers focused on serving Christ by serving the poor. Vincent de Paul believed the confraternities' purpose was accomplishing Christ's desire that Christians practice charity and mercy, as Jesus said "what you have done for the least of these, you have done for me." The Association of Charity was founded to honor Christ by feeding and loving the poor as He loved us. In serving the poor, one serves Jesus Christ, as God accepts services done for the poor as done for Himself.

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    by Sr. Carol Schumer, D.C. for the Ladies of Charity USA

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    This document discusses seeing Jesus in those living in poverty based on passages from Vincent de Paul. It contains readings, hymns, and prayers focused on serving Christ by serving the poor. Vincent de Paul believed the confraternities' purpose was accomplishing Christ's desire that Christians practice charity and mercy, as Jesus said "what you have done for the least of these, you have done for me." The Association of Charity was founded to honor Christ by feeding and loving the poor as He loved us. In serving the poor, one serves Jesus Christ, as God accepts services done for the poor as done for Himself.

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    Seeing Jesus in Poor Persons

    Call to Prayer Leader: Lets pause to reflect, as we focus


    our hearts and minds on God and on the opportunity we have to see
    Jesus in persons living in poverty.

    ALL: In the name of the Father and of the Son and


    of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

    Reading God be praised, Ladies, for granting you the grace of


    clothing Our Lord in His poor members, most of whom had nothing
    but rags to cover them and several children were as naked as the back
    of my hand.
    Conferences Vincent de Paul Coste, Vol. 13b, C198, page 428

    Hymn

    Open My Eyes verses 1-3

    Text: Based on Mark 8:22-25. Text and music

    1968, 1999, Jesse Manibusan. Published by spiritandsong.com


    Used with permission OCP LicenSing Online #612305

    Antiphon All: Jesus, source of grace, bless our efforts to serve You in
    others.

    Let our love be strong enough to replace our fear and wariness.
    Psalm 72: 1-2, 4, 12-17, 19

    Side 1 O God, with Your judgment and with Your justice, endow Your leader
    who shall govern Your people with justice and your afflicted ones with righteousness.
    Side 2 He shall defend those afflicted among the people, saving the children
    of those who are poor and crushing the one who oppresses them.
    Side 1 For he shall rescue the poor ones when they cry out
    and those who are afflicted when they have no one to help them.
    Side 2 Your leader shall have pity on persons who are needy and poor.
    He shall save the lives of those struggling with poverty.
    Side 1 To him, long life and continuous prayers; day by day, shall he be blessed.

    Seeing Jesus (cont)

    Side 2 Blessed be Your leaders name forever;


    his name shall remain as long as the sun.
    Side 1 In him, shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
    all nations shall proclaim their happiness.
    Side 2 And blessed forever be Your glorious name, O God,
    may the whole earth be filled with Your glory. Amen.
    adapted from Psalms Anew, Schreck and Leach, pages 102-04

    ALL: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the


    Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and
    ever shall be world without end. Amen.
    (Pray antiphon again.)

    Reader 1:

    in all confraternities, the Servants of the Poor take for patron Our Lord
    Jesus and for its aim the accomplishment of His very ardent desire that Christians should
    practice among themselves the works of charity and mercy. This desire He makes clear to us
    in His own words: ... Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
    the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat I was sick and you
    visited me for what you have done to the least of those, you did to me. 1 Coste, 13b, C126, page 9

    Reader 2:

    The Association of the Charity has been founded to feed all the poor of the
    place where it [is] established, to honor Our Lord Jesus in the person of the poor, and to
    carry out His commandment that we love one another as He has loved us. Its patron is
    Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is Charity personified.
    Coste, 13b, C131, pages 40-41

    Response: (All)

    in serving persons who are poor, we serve Jesus Christ.


    God accepts services [we] do for [poor] persons as done to Himself.
    Coste, 9, C24, page 199

    Reflection Questions:
    When have I seen Jesus in my ministry as a Lady of Charity?
    How have I grown in my acceptance and care of others through my service?
    Response: Open My Eyes verse 4
    Prayer: (Pray together.) O glorious St. Vincent, you never lost courage in spite
    of the difficulties you encountered in the path of your charitable ministry.
    Pray for us and ensure that the love of those living in poverty may never
    diminish in our hearts, but continue to increase and at our deaths, we may
    find the same mercy from God that the poor people receive from us. May
    we merit the eternal happiness of heaven promised by God to those who
    have loved poor persons during their lives. Amen.
    adapted from MANUAL of the Ladies of Charity of the United States of America, page 27

    Prayer Texts

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Matthew 17: 1 8
    This is my beloved Son Listen to him.
    Matthew 25: 34 40 As often as you did it for one of my least, you did it for me.
    prepared for the Ladies of Charity by Sr. Carol Schumer, D.C., February, 2014

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