All About Alms

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Alms, alms, alms. The word shows up 163 times at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ site… and just three times in the New Testament.

While the first image that may come to mind is providing funds to someone who’s destitute, almsgiving means much more than that. The USCCB site tells us it’s “donating money or goods to the poor and performin...