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...together with others who share your vocation...

Brother, sister, you would not have been able to accomplish very much alone. Together with others who share your vocation, you can remain in the unity of a faith capable of transporting obstacles as big as mountains. The community, even if its members are few, remains the “little flock” that hopes against all hope. For you, poverty will mean a daily effort of simplification that will make you one of the poor of Yhwh. You know very well that even if you do not show exterior signs of your vocation, the visibility of the community will make it difficult, if not impossible, for you to share the poverty of those who are destitute, rejected, and oppressed. You will find it easy to be welcomed, honored and respected, which the poor are not. For this reason, your own poverty must be accompanied by a spirit of great humility, both in the community and outside of it: a sense of your own smallness and an attitude that flees honors and distinctions.

 

(Rule of Bose 12; 23).


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