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Scenes from the Life of St. Francis, Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497), 1452, fresco. Museum Complex of San Francesto, Apsidal Chapel. Photo by Web Gallery of Art / Wikimedia Commons.

How to Be Poor in Spirit

Brimming with heavenly insights, The Paradise of the Soul presents forty-two virtues to reach Heaven. Read on for St. Albert the Great’s counsel on cultivating

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Embrace the spirit of evangelic poverty by leaving all things for God's sake. Possess only life's necessities and be willing to go without for the love of God.

Am I Poor In Spirit?

To embrace the spirit of evangelic poverty perfectly means to be ready to leave all things freely for the sake of God and to seek to possess nothing beyond the necessi­ties of life. Indeed, the charism of poverty even extends to being willing to go without things which are necessary at certain times, for the love of God. Where there is not an actual lack of something which is wanted or needed, then the virtue of evangelic poverty cannot be fully active.

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