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Pope Francis has sent a video message to members of the John 17 Movement, an ecumenical initiative that helps build communion of friendship and love among Christian Churches towards unity.
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We need to help all people, but we especially need to help other Christians.
And right now there are a lot of people in the USA who need help, we have homeless people everywhere who need help. And as all of the jobs have went to China, we need for people to create new jobs for the jobs which were lost, and we need to have good fair trade rules with China and others. Times are hard right now in the USA, it is the worst I have ever seen it, it is like the Great Depression. We need to help people, and people need to bring the jobs back to the USA.
Also, as everything opens back up, if people want to put together groups to raise money to feed the hungry, people can form teams to sell beer and hot dogs at sporting events, and at concerts, etc. A friend and his group sold hot dogs and beer at sporting events and concerts and they raised over one million dollars for charity to feed hungry people.
Matthew 25, 31-46 tells us to help the poor, and to help the homeless, and to feed the hungry, etc, you cannot do that if you are poor and homeless. You need to have money and you need to be successful to help the homeless. Christians need to learn how to do honest business, and they need to learn how to make money so that they can help the poor people. And as the poor people rise then they too can help others to rise.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A31-46&version=NRSV;NIVAnd Proverbs 31 talks about the qualities of a good wife. God wants the women to study and to learn how to do business, so that they can help to take care of the family.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2031%3A10-31&version=ICBGod wants Christians to have money and to understand business so that Christians can help the poor and the needy. You cannot help anyone if you are out there on the streets homeless. You cannot give from an empty cup, your cup has to be over-flowing so that you can help others.
Of note too, the Catholic Church should have a bank which gives business loans to poor people so that they can be farmers, etc, and as they rise they can help other people.
God wants us to have money, and God wants us to be generous and he wants us to help other people.
Salute,
Tony V.