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Examples of alms


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Only legal taxes should be imposed including the obligation of the alms tax (zakat), and encouraging people to give voluntarily.
A significant proportion of them were young, male beggars who were feared capable of working sorcery as a rite of revenge against householders who rejected their pleas for alms.
Alms were collected at church services, and the bread purchased thereby was certainly disbursed at the church door, a very public display of charity, hierarchy and dependence.
Here we have fasting, alms-giving, prayers, and a special three-day programme of litanies, with priests walking barefoot to church - all in support of a military emergency.
The ceremony thus became a component of a solemn feast in the church, including orchestral music, fireworks and alms to the poor, all paid for by the girl's family.
Priests, reeves and hundred-men would see to it that the alms-giving and fasting was carried out, and would take an oath to that effect on the relics.
The bestowing of alms and the kind visits of ministers and missionaries to those in the second and third categories are viewed as having limited benefit in relieving distress.
I am 80 years old and am stranded here, like the broken keel of a ship with empty sails, and am forced to live off the alms of my son.
From the convent chronicle we understand that at least until the first half of the seventeenth century families regularly offered alms for the convent church, and many other gifts.
Are we doing anything to deprive the poor of alms?
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By apparently giving alms we are being big-hearted, but we are also doing a good bit of business, thank you very much.
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The first was to enable the poor to better their lot, and the second was to absolve the rich from the obligation of alms giving.
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Charity largely used to mean the giving of alms to the poor.
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They had to live on alms from the time of their deportation.
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They had not raised their voices, neither had they risked for alms.
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The land occupied by the almshouse and the land developed and let—the income from which supports the almshouse—both benefit the alms people.
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The distribution of the money for alms and purposes of that kind is done in secret.
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They will say that they are alms houses.
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The fact is that we have treated aid as though it were alms-giving.
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Among them are administrators of charities and alms houses.
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First, they are concerned about alms houses because of the change in the law.
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We are not offering alms to our poor neighbours.
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One cannot speak too highly of what may be done as regards the care of the poor, the provision of hospitals, alms-giving, and similar purposes.
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We think there should be a fair division so that the interests of the alms people are not prejudiced in any way by the changes.
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We are really talking about aid; what we are not talking about is alms.
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The first makes it an offence for a person to wander abroad and to beg or gather alms.
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Now many of the charities which founded these alms-houses provided money to supply a small pension to the occupants, but left no adequate funds for repairs and modernizing.
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Great concern has been expressed about the allocation of the alms houses, and there is no avenue for people to get information about, for example, how the tenancies are let.
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We cannot stand by while child allowances and the like are basically only alms for families with children, which are quite clearly discriminated against by social security and pension systems.
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They knock on the door, and ask the man inside for alms.
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Tertiaries took care of their churches and gathered the alms they needed.
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He was hard-working and austere, and his alms-giving was so generous that his monks, fearing he would give away everything, rebelled.
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Priests are never to leave the altar to collect alms from the faithful.
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I had earned the money by reciting alms.
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His new duties were to distribute the papal alms and to confirm children in danger of death.
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However, this does not include eating meat which was given as alms or commercially purchased.
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Instead of becoming better citizens, most become parasites reliant upon alms from the millionaire.
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There he lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on alms, the excess of which he distributed among the poor.
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The group goes through the street single-file, chanting, and sympathizers come down and fill their alms bowls.
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Alms houses were built in the 19th century along with a village school.
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Apart from maintaining its facilities and supporting its personnel the church gave most of the donations it received as alms.
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Venkamma used to go to the village for alms.
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Therefore, these parables may be about alms, almsgiving and the proper use of the wealth controlled by the temple authorities.
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The priest was responsible for seeing that no beggars came to ask the worshipers for alms.
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The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitant householders not receiving alms, which amounted to about 130 voters in 1831.
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Give her to me, and wander from house to house with your alms bowl.
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Yearly the students from classes 8 to 10 visit old age homes and provide alms to the poor.
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He rebuilt the parish church, and built and endowed alms houses for the relief of 11 senior citizens.
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The bailiffs there were commanded to provide tapers and alms for her obsequies.
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Ringing also is used to alert the faithful that there is a monk within earshot in need of alms.
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His father is so rich that he hates even the smell of the poor, and despises anyone who talks about giving money as alms.
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Charitable giving as a religious act or duty is referred to as almsgiving or alms.
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He begged for alms to procure necessities the convent could not provide.
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In the morning, he woke up with the thought that somehow he must perform the puja and so thinking went out for his biksha (alms).
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Shvetambara monks do not cook food but solicit alms from householders.
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He went bare-footed, preceded by a man carrying a staff surmounted with an iron cross; he slept on the bare ground, and lived by alms.
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They refuse to accept alms from military families or perform services for them.
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No sound is heard from their alms-bowls and other utensils.
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They provided spiritual guidance for the nobility, and received protection and alms in return.
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The former along with its wooden imitation, "gottan" were played for performance to procure alms, house to house; this was called kadozuke.
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Everything is to be done, e.g. by hanging curtains at the doorways, by prohibiting the solicitation of alms etc., to promote recollection and silence.
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Standing untouched in character is an historic alms-house, public hospital, and a penal institution built in the eighteenth century.
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He collected zakah alms at harvest and distributed it to the poor and for public works.
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When a poll tax of two shillings was introduced in 1697, those living by alms were exempt.
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He begged for alms daily so that he could collect sins and wash them away.
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They were so enamoured of him that while granting alms, they allowed their clothes to fall off and followed him, dancing and singing, love-sick.
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When the church was active in 1945, its communion plate included a cup and cover dated 1634, and an alms plate inscribed 1700.
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A saint came to the door of their palace one day and asked for alms.
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If one was without means, she neither asked nor accepted alms but supported herself by manual labour or by teaching the children of burghers.
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In the morning of the festival day, alms are offered to monks (tak bat thewo) at the foot of the hill.
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He instructed his paramhansas to collect alms from all sections of society and appointed people from the lower strata of society as his personal attendants.
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Buddhist monks continued to report that they were fearful and thus no longer able to travel freely through southern communities to receive alms.
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Once, while begging for alms, he happened across the house of his former wife.
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Communion alms met some of the needs of the poor.
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Charity and alms-giving are religiously sanctioned voluntary gifts given without expectation of return.
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The rules also encompass cleanliness, the donation of alms and fasting at appointed times.
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A system of alms provided for funds to be remitted back up the same chain down which these instructions descended.
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Rituals include fasting and giving alms to the poor.
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Franciscans were especially hated because they lived by soliciting alms in addition to tithes and other fees ordinary people had to pay to the church.
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Following his father's example, his will allowed for a full heraldic funeral, and alms to be distributed throughout county.
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He used to beg his food from an alms house and spent two and half months in solitude.
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She was known to give alms everywhere she went, turning nobody in need away.
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She added that laymen and laywomen are not concerned with the subtleties of doctrine; rather, they give to whoever they believe are worthy of alms.
Alms-giving in particular was a practical, if necessarily limited, response to the hardship caused by famine, persecution or personal loss.
The southern counties predicted mean proportion of alms to income is 6.1-6.9 per cent (189 listed as supplying alms ; 152 as not supplying alms).
As we take alms their on a monthly basis, we got used to of going to that temple.
If it was harvest time, they stole the corn; and if alms were refused, they punished the owners by plundering their granaries at night.
There is also a certain amount of ambiguity concerning the term alms-taker.
Thirdly, it discouraged casual doles and indiscriminate alms-giving.
Their purpose was to hold alms given by the faithful.
At the same time he gave alms with his own hand to the poor from a basket of coins placed by his side.
As the noon prayer concluded, he was besieged by a swarm of "the poor, beggars, and women" who were hoping for alms.
What we usually do not know is the number of persons who applied for alms or grants of charity but did not get them.
In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.
Then, before subtracting the alms, the percentage is obtained.
I take line 149 to be a reference to the souls in purgatory who are helped by the alms of the living.
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