Catholic Church To Treat The Savior Of Our World

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Sometimes, we treat others differently based on what they look like, what they sound like, and what they act like. Sometimes, we treat others more poorly because we dislike them because they are different from us. Sometimes, we cast that person off to the peripheries of society by making them feel so lonely whether purposely or not. Once in our life, we have done something like this and have caused a person to become an outcast whether we acted to do this on purpose or to we didn’t act to help them at all. However, the Catholic Church teaches all of us to help out the lowliest and poorest in society as Jesus taught us. In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said during His parable on the last judgement about those who were on the right side of the king "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that …show more content…

How we treat our fellow human beings is how we treat the Savior of our world. Many Catholics have become inspired by Jesus’ message to care for the lowliest of the lowly. One such example of someone who historically went to the periphery of society to care for the lowly ones was Saint Jerome Emiliani.

The story of Saint Jerome Emiliani’s quest to help those on the periphery begin with him being born in Venice in 1486. At age 15, Jerome left his home to join the army after his father died. When he was in the military, he was appointed as a governor of Treviso. While he was governor, he was captured by the armies of a rival nation. As a prisoner trapped in a dark dungeon , Jerome made a deal with God to help him escape. Miraculously, Jerome escaped alive and returned to Treviso where he made a pilgrimage to Our

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