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…it is essential to despise all earthly things,
looking upon them as refuse, and holding only what is strictly required by
one’s needs. Even these should be
curtailed a little so as to endure some inconvenience out of love for
poverty…Unfortunately, many desire poverty in name only and provided that they
want for nothing. They profess to be
friends of poverty, but are very careful to avoid, as much as possible, hunger,
thirst, abjection and contempt, those inseparable companions of poverty.
St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.
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