{"id":29,"date":"2023-05-12T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-05-13T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:51:58","slug":"alms-giving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/welcome\/alms-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Alms-Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular alms-giving is part of our Manichaean Faith. All Manichaean brothers and sisters know it is there responsibility to make alms on a weekly or monthly basis. This is the reason you will rarely hear Manichaean clergy asking congregations or study groups for donations. We already know it\u2019s our divine responsibility. A page was set up (linked below) to make it easier for those who wish to make their alms-giving or other offerings via online.<\/p>\n<p>We do not ask for gifts or alms from those who are not members of the Faith, but we appreciate any thing others may wish to provide.<\/p>\n<p>As Manichaeans we believe that our sins are removed by making alms on a regular basis. Not everyone is able to provide alms in the form of money, thus one would give food to one of the Elect; however, in the absence of one of the Elect, it is a noble act to give food to the poor in your community or neighbourhood. This act of charity is blessed and your transgressions can be forgiven if done so with a pure heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular alms-giving is part of our Manichaean Faith. All Manichaean brothers and sisters know it is there responsibility to make alms on a weekly or monthly basis. This is the reason you will rarely hear Manichaean clergy asking congregations or study groups for donations. We already know it\u2019s our divine responsibility. A page was set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manichaean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}