almsgiving – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Fri, 05 May 2017 02:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 Almsgiving and the challenge of encounter https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/06/almsgiving-challenge-encounter/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/06/almsgiving-challenge-encounter/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:21:51 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=14636 In the fading days of summer, Kiwi Catholics know that another season looms — Lent, with its increased focus on prayer, almsgiving and fasting, in preparation for Easter.  St Augustine described fasting and almsgiving as “the two wings of prayer”, because they are signs of humility and charity. But these two qualities were in short supply recently when a prominent New

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