IN the Catholic Church when we were being encouraged to support charities like Cafod and the St Vincent De Paul Society that organise food and medical relief in stricken parts of the world, we always used to be urged to “give till it hurts”.
Incredible as it may seem, I know that there are some people who follow this precept to the letter.
What’s more their number includes some on very low incomes themselves, who regularly give far more than they can afford and who must be going without to do so.
Such people avoid publicity of any kind like the plague. Indeed it is anathema to them. I only know of them because I stand with the SVP collecting box outside our church every Sunday morning.
In this cynical self-serving world of ours, it is nice to know that there are still such people. I find this profoundly inspiring.
Tony Kelly, Crook
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