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almsgiving

NOUN
  1. making voluntary contributions to aid the poor

How To Use almsgiving In A Sentence

  • With its emphasis on prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, Lent is a time when we are invited to leave our controlled and comfortable environment and enter a place of emptiness and need.
  • When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret.
  • One dimension of Lent that tends to get pushed to the side is the practice of almsgiving.
  • They forgot that God was actually the beginning and end of all their prayer, fasting and almsgiving - and began to see the world revolving round themselves.
  • Welsh kings and lesser lords did participate in an expensive and conspicuously pious practice: they employed what wealth they had on extravagant almsgiving.
  • Provision of help or relief to the poor; almsgiving.
  • Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
  • Compassion is at least as key in education as in almsgiving.
  • Constitutional lawsuit is the prerequisite of human rights judicial almsgiving.
  • The Lenten practice of almsgiving thus becomes a means to deepen our Christian vocation.
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