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Compassion

February 15, 2025
By Daniel Minter

Compassion

Our strength of the week is COMPASSION.  The strength to be aware of the needs of others and the desire to help them.

THE GOLDEN RULE Treat others the way you want to be treated. “Do unto others  as you would have them do unto you.” Matthew 7:1

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Rooted in the Latin compassio meaning “to suffer with,” compassion involves love, understanding, and a willingness to help others, seeing them through the eyes of Christ. 

SAINT QUOTES ON COMPASSION 

St. Thomas Aquinas: “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.” 

St. Teresa of Ávila: “Christ has no body now but yours, no hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which He looks with compassion on this world.” 

St. Augustine: “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. That is what love looks like.”

The opposing vice is COLD-HEARTEDNESS.  The weakness to not care about the needs or sufferings of others.

Cold-heartedness is an indifference or lack of concern towards the suffering or needs of others. It reflects a closed heart that resists empathy, often leading to selfishness, hardness, and insensitivity. 

In Christ's Peace
Daniel Minter
President 
Assumption Catholic Schools
715.422.0902

Mission- to inspire excellence and personal growth grounded in Catholic principles and tradition
Vision - a community of academic excellence Catholic in spirit and culture, nurturing integrity and respect. 


 

 

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