Charity toward Neighbor

44. 1. They have for one another a charity that is anticipating and full of goodwill, seeking occasions to give each other pleasure; full of respect, outdoing one another in honor; full of patience, bearing with one another's faults.
45. 2. This queen of all virtues is the queen and the Superior of the Company, governing with her scepter all of gold. She is its life, its bond, and its guardian — pride, self-sufficiency, and the spirit of self-interest being banished from it: limen obi, vivax imperat intus amor. [Cross the threshold — within, ardent charity reigns.]
46. 3. They have a joyful and cordial charity toward everyone, especially toward their enemies, returning good for evil and praying to God for eight days for anyone who has done them some notable injury — far from complaining of it, speaking ill of the person, or seeking revenge.
47. 4. They take particular care of the poor, both during and outside of missions, never refusing them charity — whether bodily, if they are able, or spiritual, even if they should say for them no more than a Hail Mary.
48. 5. After each catechism session, they give dinner to all the poor of the parish who attended the catechism; and every day, morning and evening, they have one poor person eat at their table.
49. 6. They strive to fulfill faithfully these most charitable words of the great Apostle: omnia omnibus factus sum — becoming all things to all people through charity in indifferent matters, without adopting the fashions of the world and without relaxing anything of their duty.