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“To be poor in the Gospel sense one must so use things that he can honestly say that the use gives glory to the Father.” pg 92

Factual poverty embraced in faith does something to a person in the deep resources of his being. It matures him, develops him, makes him receptive to what the Lord Jesus is about

Very challenging. Fr. Dubay, however, errs in proposing that 2. Cor. viii 13-15 stands for the proposition that we are to give to a level of arithmetic equality. The Greek word in the passage often translated equality is elsewhere translated as fairness; the passage invokes a reciprocal care which does not necessarily involve sameness; and the sharing of manna, which it cites, was not to an arithmetic equality.

A strong foundation laid with uncompromising fidelity.