It's Our Duty To Be Socially Useful Throught Work - 2
We continue our discussion about our duty to be socially useful through work . Last time we saw how that duty begins with our our own families, and those closest to us. While we may be in a position to help others outside our inner circle of family, friends, and neighbors, in Working Your Way into Heaven , Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski want us to clearly understand our initial duty to our families. The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. St Paul tells us in 1 Timothy 5:8: The man who makes no provision for those near him, above all his own family, has contradicted the teachings of the Faith, and indeed does worse than the unbelievers do. But St. Paul does not mean that we exhaust our duty by taking care of our own family. In Galatians 6:10, he further states: ...let us practice generosity to all, while the opportunity is ours; and, above all, to those who are of one family with us in the Faith. As authentic Christians our charity flows in abundance, beginning but ...