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The evangelical poverty

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  • 1) The situation of not few religious men today: vote of poverty or of a good middle-class? To talk about poverty is a fashion or a need?
  1: J. BOURS – F. KAMPHAUS, Passione per Dio, Roma 1984, 125.
  2: T. RADCLIFFE, Vita Consacrata e cultura contemporanea, Ariccia 1996, cicl. 1.
  3: R. CANTALAMESSA, Povertà, Milano 1996, 5-6.
  4: Cf. J.L. MARTINEZ, Construir la vida, Madrid 2003, 123-124.



  • 2) The anthropological and socio-economic concept of poverty has been broaden; and not everything is negative.
  5: In the US, first world economic power, there are millions of poor people. Many countries of the Th[...]
  6: In order to understand how this mentality is contrary to the Christian spirit (that we find also i[...]
  7: Quoting NMI, RdC talks about “the desperation of the non-sense, the temptation of drugs, the aba[...]
  8: Cristina Onassis (daughter of millionaire Onassis, who once was married to Jacqueline Kennedy) sa[...]
  9: “It is only by accepting oneself as poor that one becomes a man” (U. VIVARELLI, cit. da A. PRONZA[...]
  10: Furthermore, the primitive community of Jerusalem is praised in the book of the Acts, not because[...]



  • 3) We do not forget that the meaning of our poverty is not, above all, socio-economic, but theological.
  11: It is worth noticing that in the NT more than 500 versicles (1/16 completely) talk directly about [...]
  12: Read the marvelous council text, quoted also by the Catechism: “in Christ the human nature has be[...]
  13: S. AGOSTINO, Enarr. in Psal. 34, 13.



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