Catholic Classics Day 21: True Poverty and False Friendship (Introduction to the Devout Life)
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Practice Poverty Through Regular Almsgiving
- Give away part of your means regularly to practice real poverty and prevent self-love from turning care for goods into covetousness.
- St. Francis de Sales recommends almsgiving as a concrete poverty practice that both impoverishes you and spiritually enriches you.
Love Makes You Like The Poor
- Loving the poor makes you like them: love forms resemblance between lover and beloved.
- St. Francis cites Scripture and St. Paul to show love creates real participation in the other's state, including poverty.
Serve The Poor With Your Own Hands
- Serve the poor personally and humbly: tend sick beds, cook, sew, and perform menial tasks yourself.
- St. Francis praises kings like St. Louis who knelt to serve lepers and dining with the poor as model acts.