Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom
1981·180 pages
Explores the Gospel call to poverty as loving frugality rather than destitution, showing how this beatitude applies to every state of life for deeper spiritual freedom.
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Explores the Gospel call to poverty as loving frugality rather than destitution, showing how this beatitude applies to every state of life for deeper spiritual freedom.
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To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal. A love-filled sharing frugality is the message, and Happy Are You Poor explains the meaning of this beatitude lived and taught by Jesus himself. But isn't simplicity in lifestyle meant only for nuns and priests? Are not all of us to enjoy the goodness and beauties of our magnificent creation? Are parents to be frugal with the children they love so much? The renowne...
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Central focus on Gospel poverty, beatitudes, evangelical counsels, and frugality lived in every vocation
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Discusses how widespread Gospel frugality would eliminate destitution
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