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Why Poverty?

Before we enter into a potentially lengthy and superfluous discussion about how one should live a life of poverty, it would seem appropriate to make clear why one would even want to be poor in the first place. Given… Read More

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Posted on December 7, 2013 by CaseyOFM

Poverty

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Seeking Insecurity

Poverty as a virtue is a difficult concept to define, and an even more difficult concept to get a group of friars to agree on. My concept of poverty is different from Br. X’s whose concept of poverty… Read More

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Posted on August 11, 2013 by CaseyOFM

Novitiate, Poverty, Vows

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