Joe Heschmeyer and Alms

Will I Go to Hell If I Don’t Help Every Homeless Person?
Catholic Answers Live Clips | 13 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDMUvjSnTDw

The good thing on your post is, you nailed it, the caller could have had a genuine call from God.

Imagine people taking that man for a drunkard and drug addict and giving him only food, and he needs to wash ... or imagine God wanted the caller to meet someone else through him or through stepping off the bus and talking to him.

But "intentionality" and Didache.

What Didache sounds to me is, like I did (despite being homeless myself, when I had money) when I took out money every day, and usually 10 or 20 € (it was 2011 or 2012). I took out the money in a bill. I changed the bill for the first thing I needed to buy. I took 1/10 (so, 1 or 2 €) and took the first possible chance to give it to someone. (It's less easy to do this when taking out once or twice a week, since beggars will be there other days too).

I was taking responsibility for myself in a goats and sheep perspective.

What you recommend is taking responsibility for the other ... in a perspective that sounds Quranic. "If someone is doing it for God, if someone is disabled, if someone is ignorant, if someone is in discomfort, if someone is your friend" ... but to no one else. Apparently. Not sure I didn't misquote, but actually Mohammed personally was better than "his god" when he spoke "do not regret it, even if you see him riding away on a horse" ...

And "addictions" ... some evil doers will try to apply a Commie Chinese diagnosis invented in 2004, "internet addict" which to someone actually writing as a kind of trade on the internet is like calling a baker an "oven heat addict" ... even to pure consumers, as an avid reader back in my youth, I'm happy they hadn't invented the term "book addict" ...