SHARING OUR STUFF

Quote for Today - February 17, 2011

"We should not consider our material possessions our own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."

St. Thomas Aquinas O.P. [c. 1225-1274]

Painting on top by Fra Angelico, also a Dominican [c. 1387-1455] Oooops! Maybe I should have looked for a painting of Thomas with more of a smile on his face. I read somewhere that he was a jolly person.

Suggestion to any Catholic who screams about socialism: reflect upon the above words of Aquinas in light of the Acts of the Apostles 4:32 as well as the great social encyclicals and documents of the Catholic Church: Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII; Quadragesimo Anno, Pius XI; Mater et Magistra, Pacem in Terris [Pope John 23], Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II; Populorum Progressio, Octogesima Adveniens, Paul VI; Laborem Exercens, Sollicitudo Res Socialis, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus, John Paul II; Caritas in Veritate, Deus Caritas Est, Benedict XVI.