alms-giving

There were departments in charge of alms-giving, the distribution of war spoils, hospitals, and the maintenance and health of rivers.

They want the satisfaction of transcendental experience, without being prepared to undergo the discpline that religion demands, in terms of prayer, self-denial or alms-giving.

The original intent of Lent, which was developed in the fourth and fifth centuries, was to fortify one’s relationship with God, oneself and the poor by focusing on prayer, fasting and alms-giving.

Love, mercy, patience, self-denial, alms-giving, truth, and the cultivation of wisdom, he required of all.

Her scent was as keen for charitable associations as a pig's for truffles, and she could tell to a minute the appointed time of their alms-giving, and to a penny the value of their alms.