114. To what has been said above the following may be added:
1. With every one, Christian charity consists in his performing faithfully the duties of his calling; for thus, if he shuns evils as sins, he daily does what is good, and is himself his own use in the common body; thus also the common good is provided for, as well as that of each individual in particular.
2. Other works are not properly works of charity, but are either its signs, or its benefactions, or its obligations.
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