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edjlopez23
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Like is having an expensive jacket or car against being poor in spirit? What if you got you got it like 70% off, does that count as being poor?
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LittleFlower378
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St.Francis didn’t want money, and any possessions, and he didn’t want anything that even looked rich. So if you ask St.Francis and follow him he wouldn’t take the rich looking Jacket even if it was 70 percent off.
Of course people with families and on budgets may need to get the best wuality for the best price.
Of course people with families and on budgets may need to get the best wuality for the best price.
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therese1998
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As I understand it, poor in spirit isn’t so much in money as in hubris (exaggerated pride).
To use your analogy, St Francis would have taken the nice coat, given it to another and begged for a throw away jacket. It was his way of saying “I am nothing. Jesus is everything”.
That extreme of humility is a vocation. He was called to it and he excelled at it.
To use your analogy, St Francis would have taken the nice coat, given it to another and begged for a throw away jacket. It was his way of saying “I am nothing. Jesus is everything”.
That extreme of humility is a vocation. He was called to it and he excelled at it.
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Mtatum1958
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It’s is more about looking to live a lavish lifestyle or making the attainment of goods our goal in life. More to be humble, and recognize that all things come from God.
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BarbTh
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I think it is about one’s spirit i.e. that one is intrinsically humble and lowly in nature.
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ahs
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I was taught that “poor in spirit” was more in regards to a spirit that is always in need of God’s grace…never filled with itself…a spirit always in want of (lacking in) something that it cannot give itself, and the awareness of such. In other words, being always cognizant of the fact that we need God, and that apart from Him, we are nothing, is an example of being “poor in spirit”.
Tis_Bearself
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Actually, I have heard a number of homilies, including one just a short time ago when this reading came up, to the effect that “poor in spirit” is not related to your economic level, and doesn’t have anything to do with how much money you have, but instead refers to your relationship with God.
A person who is “poor in spirit” is humble and realizes their dependence on God and seeks to grow their relationship with God. I would guess that they are probably not overly materialistic or living a very lavish lifestyle, but that would be more because they are seeking to have a relationship with God than because they are seeking to live an impoverished lifestyle like St. Francis.
This Lifeteen blog has a similar explanation to the homilies I have heard.
A person who is “poor in spirit” is humble and realizes their dependence on God and seeks to grow their relationship with God. I would guess that they are probably not overly materialistic or living a very lavish lifestyle, but that would be more because they are seeking to have a relationship with God than because they are seeking to live an impoverished lifestyle like St. Francis.
This Lifeteen blog has a similar explanation to the homilies I have heard.
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