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Should I Give Money to Poor People? | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Pints With Aquinas

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Father Gregory Pine discusses the concept of mercy and how it relates to our responsibility towards the poor, exploring different perspectives on giving money and emphasizing the importance of virtues that inform our actions.

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Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph and I teach the Dominican House of Studies and I work as an assistant director for the Domestic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas. I suspect that all of us have had the experience of walking through a town or a city and being approached and asked for money or for something else and then you have to make a decision. Okay, so maybe you do the same thing every time, like you give $5 or you give a granola bar or whatever, or maybe it's circumstance dependent, like, you know, if the person has an iPhone 15, then I will not give anything. But if the person doesn't have an iPhone 15, then I will give something. I have known people who act in this way or it might be that you're just totally bewildered by the experience and you're like, ah, and then you act out of haste or embarrassment or whatever else. So this video is for you because it's worthwhile to think about the virtues which inform our practice and then the different ways in which we are responsible or encouraged to go beyond our ordinary responsibility and then ultimately, you know, like we want to grow in sanctity and this is an integral feature of that transformation. So let's think about it together. Here we go. All right. So let's start first by talking about mercy because mercy is the virtue which is at work here with the backing of charity, but we'll talk first about mercy. So mercy is one of these cool things where it's a divine attribute, which is to say, God is merciful and a human virtue, which is to say, we can be merciful should we so choose. So it has different expressions in God and in man. We'll talk about the expression it takes in man. So there are two features to mercy.

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