Meaning of Poverty

Poverty in a word means being humble.  Humility is not weakness but freely choosing to submit to Christ.  Humility means we recognize our sins and beg Christ to save us. 



Christ thus calls all to poverty. 

The cross becomes much more bearable in humility.

The pope recently said:

For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category. No, it is a theological category. I would say, perhaps the first category, because God, the Son of God, abased Himself, made Himself poor to walk with us on the road. And this is our poverty: the poverty of the flesh of Christ, the poverty that the Son of God brought us with His Incarnation. A poor Church for the poor begins by going to the flesh of Christ. If we go to the flesh of Christ, we begin to understand something, to understand what this poverty is, the poverty of the Lord.

 

 

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