In teaching us charity, the Gospel instructs us in the preferential respect due to the poor and the special situation they have in society: the more fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others. Pope Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens (1971), n.23.
Mosaic by Fr Marko Rupnik SJ in the chapel of the Mysteries of Light, National Shrine of St John Paul II in Washington DC.
Photo credit: Fr Lawrence Lew OP. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/21838061524/
Detail of ‘The Risen Christ and Two Disciples Reach Emmaus on Easter Evening’ by Brian Thomas (c.1934) in the Lady Chapel of Bangor Cathedral. Source: Fr Lawrence Lew OP, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/51100391616/
The Prodigal Son repents. Detail from painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c.1879. Source: Fr Lawrence Lew OP, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/47505649291/