95 Charity 1822 Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. Jesus makes charity the new commandment . By loving one another, the disciples imitate the love of Jesus which they themselves receive. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love. 100 The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our enemies , to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself.
Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
103 Charity is superior to all the virtues. But the greatest of these is charity. Charity upholds and purifies our human ability to love, and raises it to the supernatural perfection of divine love. The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the children of God. If we pursue the enticement of wages, . . .