Chapter

 1 1    |  appreciation of poverty and the poor has been the most accurate
 2 1    |       some have dedicated to the poor, others to the poorest among
 3 1    |         to the poorest among the poor… And today, in which Constitution
 4 1    | themselves “particularly” to the poor? It is also meaningful that
 5 1    |          about the Church of the poor (…), seated on comfortable
 6 1    |          How could it be called “poor” in our society a religious
 7 1    |      before coming back to their poor people… And how many times,
 8 1    |    simply gone to live among the poor, to give them a hand with
 9 1    |         not take the name of the poor in vain” (cf. Ex 20,7).~  ~
10 2    |     society there can be so many poor 5. ~ ~ We could thus talk
11 2    |        to think, e.g. that some “poor people” in some industrialized
12 2    |        today would be considered poor: they did not have electrical
13 2(5) |     power, there are millions of poor people. Many countries of
14 2(5) |           are not in themselves “poor”, but “countries with poor
15 2(5) |       poor”, but “countries with poor people”; they have the potentialities
16 2(5) |   wealthy. The countries really “poor” are in fact a few. That
17 2(5) |     countries not to exploit the poor ones, warns the latter to
18 2    |      duty, of that one who feels poor of quality and personal
19 2    |     poverty even of “the opulent poor”, namely of those who are
20 2    |          are rich of things, but poor in values, whose life drowns
21 2    |    freedom and liberation.  ~ ~ ~Poor in a positive sense is that
22 2(8) |       was about to die: “I am so poor that I only have money left...”. ~
23 2    |         time hunger and bread 9. Poor, so, not in the sense of
24 2(9) |          by accepting oneself as poor that one becomes a man” (
25 2    |      oblation10. In this way, “a poor heart” becomes unavoidably
26 2(10)|         the Acts, not because is poor, but because they share
27 2(10)|        in itself, we do love the poor, the brothers; we are not
28 3    |          for your sake he became poor» (2Cor 8,9; cf. Phl 2,5-
29 3    |         the predilection for the poor, and the promotion of justice” (
30 3    |          not exclusive – for the poor (VC 82, 90). The poor, actually,
31 3    |        the poor (VC 82, 90). The poor, actually, become the first –
32 3    |          for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty
33 3    |   becomes flesh (sarx, he became poor) (cf. Jh 1,14); the Son
34 3    |       like us, and consequently “poor”, limited, subjected to
35 3    |          way, Christ becomes the poor par excellence: no one has
36 3    |       radicalism of the biblical poor: without goods (material
37 3    |      recognized by Him…!); even “poor” of the Father, feeling
38 3    |        who has become completely poor, of that one who has remained
39 3    |          for your sake he became poor» (2Cor 8,9), becomes an
40 3    |        This is the “heart of the poor” of each disciple, the poverty
41 3    | theological poverty. When one is poor, one cannot help considering
42 4    |       the going out and meet the poor; on the other hand, we are
43 4    |         mentality, contrary to a poor life, even an austere one,
44 4    |   religious people, exemplifying poor (they are those who lead