Works of Mercy: Practicing

[ccmcmg]

How is the best way you’ve practiced the various works of Mercy? I am interested in being involved with visiting the imprisoned, and wonder if anyone here has done that as well. I plan to contact the area coordinator on that one soon.
The Corporal Works of Mercy

• Feed the hungry
• Give drink to the thirsty
• Clothe the naked
• Shelter the homeless
• Visit the sick
• Visit the imprisoned
• Bury the dead

The Spiritual Works of Mercy

• Admonish the sinner
• Instruct the ignorant (This and the next work are extremely pertinent categories today, when so many people are confused by what the Church teaches on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, etc.)
• Counsel the doubtful
• Comfort the sorrowful
• Bear wrongs patiently
• Forgive all injuries
• Pray for the living and the dead

Thanks!

 

[svid2]

Pax Christi!

Something I plan to do: visit the elderly in nursing homes to read to them. I’ve been told I’m an excellent lector, and I’m thinking of becoming a voice actor, so this would be a good way to share and also get some practice.

Hope they ask me to read from Scripture and/or Catholic classics!

God bless.

 

[Faustinas_frien]

I would like to follow these posts!

I keep looking for more things I can do.

Temporal works: as I truly believe we are in the end times and have had dreams of hurt, destitute people walking the streets in my town, I’ve been collecting food, hygiene products, rosaries, heating units and knitting warm scarves, hats, etc.

Spiritual works of mercy: I became a Eucharistic minister to 2 nursing homes in my area.

I need MORE ideas,
Thanks for the post

 

[Marchelli]

I know many people who have done prison ministry with the prison chaplaincy and have said that it is one of the best experiences they have had. Many of the individuals they have worked with do not have anyone else to talk about faith with, without being judged for it and they really appreciate their visits.

 

[bcuster]

There are the ordinary ways of taking care of my husband and family. Preparing dinner, calling my elderly parents, or home-bound family members. These are the people God has put in my life. I also volunteer for taking Communion to the Sick once a month. Recently, my husband and I volunteered to prepare food boxes for the poor in our neighborhood and deliver them. We do this once a week. Before I was hired as the director of religious education at our parish I volunteered as a catechist for grade school or middle school students. I look at the gifts, talents, experiences, and skills that God has graciously given me and try to use them for His Glory and the Salvation of Souls.