There's a gap in many Catholics' formation. 

They don't understand something crucial...and it leaves them lurching from one activity and program to another..one social justice activity to another.

That "thing" is called "the order of charity".

The order of charity is God, spouse, family, extended family, neighbor, needy person 12000 miles around the world.

They don't understand how the Holy Spirit works either...they think some social justice activty is "their charity"...."their work"...their program.

Of course it's not.

So, to rehabilitate some here....we should do everything in our life primarily as an act of love for God.   That's called purity of intention.

Next we should love "right where God put us"...and he gave most of us a spouse.

By loving that spouse with supernatural and human love...she grows closer to God, bit by bit..and so do we.

That spirit of generosity then "spills out" into a lager family....then the neighborhoood, and then...