"Don't let your right hand know, what your left hand is doing". Wh!


Question: The priest said that yesterday during mass. What if both of my hands like to "work together?"


Answers: The priest said that yesterday during mass. What if both of my hands like to "work together?"

The Gospel highlights a typical feature of Christian almsgiving: it must be hidden: “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,” Jesus asserts, “so that your alms may be done in secret” (Mt 6,3-4). Just a short while before, He said not to boast of one’s own good works so as not to risk being deprived of the heavenly reward (cf. Mt 6,1-2). The disciple is to be concerned with God’s greater glory. Jesus warns: “In this way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven” (Mt 5,16). Everything, then, must be done for God’s glory and not our own. This understanding, dear brothers and sisters, must accompany every gesture of help to our neighbor, avoiding that it becomes a means to make ourselves the center of attention. If, in accomplishing a good deed, we do not have as our goal God’s glory and the real well being of our brothers and sisters, looking rather for a return of personal interest or simply of applause, we place ourselves outside of the Gospel vision. In today’s world of images, attentive vigilance is required, since this temptation is great. Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy: rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave His entire self for us. How could we not thank God for the many people who silently, far from the gaze of the media world, fulfill, with this spirit, generous actions in support of one’s neighbor in difficulty? There is little use in giving one’s personal goods to others if it leads to a heart puffed up in vainglory: for this reason, the one, who knows that God “sees in secret” and in secret will reward, does not seek human recognition for works of mercy.

Umm..

Don't let your husband know about your boyfriend.

Sometimes i sit on my hand till its numb so it feels like someone else doing it.

but i don't think he meant that.

morning dear.

do not do it out in the open !!
do it so silently ( or wat ever ) that not even the closest or your family or friends would know!

How can that be wrong?

Dont pray in public. Like go out in the middle of the street and pray, and dont brag about charity.

It means that you are to do your good deeds privately....so that others do not know how much money or time you have donated to your church, temple, worthy causes or how much you sacrifice to honor God.
Some people want to impress others with a show of what devote persons they are.
God wants us to privately impress only Him.

Hypocrisy....... the Diocese motto.

good one.[that's kinda freaky that a priest said it.] looking forward to the answers-what was the context of the message? and i agree -my hands work better in sync .is this a religious Q cuz i have heard this quote in other realms of shadier living he-he

I like James Watkin's answer.
Peace.

It's a great, beautiful sentence of Jesus.
It simply means that when you do good things for others, you must do it in silence, without clamor, as if your left hand didn't even know what the right has done.

That's because authentic charity doesn't need clamor, but it's donation, generosity and disinterested love.

maybe he meant even some close friends also should not tell all of their secrets or the private things to each other....was he wise enough like me? if not he didn't mean it

Well if I am really excited I will use both hands.....By the way, how the hell can a hand have a headache, I have no luck!

I was wondering the same myself! lol



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