Poverty and Sacrifice
Date: February 4, 2014
L'Osservatore Romano
At a press conference Tuesday morning, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ Lenten Message for 2014. His message concentrates on poverty and in particular, Christ’s poverty. The theme is drawn the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, "He became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich" (cf. 2 Cor 8:9). Pope Francis suggests Christ’s choice for poverty suggests a positive dimension for the state of being poor. “It is his way of loving us, his way of being our neighbor, just as the Good Samaritan was neighbor to the man left half dead by the side of the road." The poverty of Christ “is the greatest wealth".
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