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Two Feet of Love and Action Essay
Jesus Christ has told us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and Two feet of love and action is a catholic social justice organization that helps people do just that. Two feet of love and action seeks to end social injustices here in America. They encourage every member of a community to participate to bringing an end to poverty in their community. They encourage Catholics to take action by helping the less fortunate and going against things that they know are unjust. By doing these things Two feet of love and action hopes to put an end to poverty in America.

To me two feet of love and action tells us to help the poor in passive and active ways by encouraging Catholics to support both charity and social justice. What they do is like the saying give a man a fish and he eats for a day teach a man how to fish and he eats for a lifetime, with charity they address the current needs of the poor people like feeding them if they are hungry, and with acts of social justice they address their future needs like educating them so they can get a job. Charity and social justice are two distinctly different things, Charity helps to provide support or security for people during hard times and Social justice helps raise the person’s standard of living so they can have an improved life. Although Charity and social justice are two different things they can go hand in hand to help improve many people’s lives.

Charity and social justice are the two feet of love and action, because they encourage us to get up on our feet and take action to end poverty and to do it through love for other people and Jesus Christ. Another reason is because by doing the will of this charity we are taking a stand against social justice and the feet that we are supported by are love and action. Charity and social justice are also important parts my personal catholic faith. The teachings and actions of Jesus showed that he would not tolerate any kind of injustice, and told us that we should turn the other cheek and forgive people who have done wrong and help other people no matter who they were, so I believe that it is important for me to do the things that Jesus has commanded us to do. I also believe that it is important to my catholic faith because by donating I show I am willing to give up earthly possessions so that I can faithfully serve Jesus, and with social justice I show him that I am going out of my comfort zone to do his will. I have lived out these beliefs by donating to charities and volunteering at a social justice organization, when I did these things they made me feel good because I helped someone that was in need.

Jesus Christ has told us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves and Two feet of love and action helps us to do that. Two feet of love and action uses both charity and social justice to improve many people’s lives. Charity and social justice are represented by the feet because they encourage us to get up on our feet and take action to end poverty through love for other people and Jesus Christ. It is also important to the catholic faith because Jesus spoke against injustices and performed works of mercy, so as Catholics we should follow in his example. I have donated to charities and volunteered at a social justice organization, and by doing these little things I have helped change the world in a small way, and if we all do little things like me we can change the world in a huge way.