True Poverty or Poverty In Name Only?

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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.