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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/caritas
Synonyms
goodwill, compassion, consideration, concern, kindness, kindliness, kind-heartedness, tenderness, tender-heartedness, warm-heartedness, brotherly love, love, sympathy, understanding, fellow feeling, thoughtfulness, indulgence, tolerance, liberality, decency, nobility, graciousness, lenience, leniency
- ‘Simone Weil is writing about love as caritas when she defines it: ‘Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love’.’
Extract:
This photo is Prince William in a Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem.I can’t recall where I saw it but it was a newspaper
- THESE ARE EXAMPLE SENTENCES from the above site
- though that the speaker, while identifying caritas in familiar, Christian terms, actually downplays its rich, religious significance.’
- ‘Democracy, so understood, arises out of mutual need, and finally points to the overarching necessity of a shared sense of democratic caritas, or charity.’
- ‘And there’s a long tradition that’s talked about this using the word caritas or mutuality, and, this is within the Christian tradition.’
- ‘Verwindung is not the repudiation of religious faith, Christianity in particular, but the response best correlated to Christian caritas.’
- ‘For Cicero, friendship involves genuine, deeply felt affection, which he repeatedly calls ‘love,’ using the Latin caritas and amor.’
- ‘They did this primarily by promoting new devotions, such as that to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which celebrated a very medieval idea of love or caritas.’
- ‘The spiritual disciplines, like the Christian ideal of caritas, that lift human relationships out of the realm of the utilitarian seemed to have no place in the new world that commerce was bringing into being.’
- ‘Simone Weil is writing about love as caritas when she defines it: ‘Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love’.’
- ‘Exploration of such issues as ritual, dietary codes, cleansing, communion, caritas and compassionate fasting are complemented by specific ‘spiritual meal guidelines’ exercises for readers to practice.’
- ‘Hospitality – caritas – became a duty for all Christians, whether the one to whom aid was proffered or from whom it was received was a family or tribal member, or a stranger.’
Synonyms
How my heart sings 