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Blessed Are The Poor

The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

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How to Live in the Trinity of Love and Community

Roxanne Jones: I read this awesome line from Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict from introduction to Christianity. He talks about hell as the, like you're just basically turned in on yourself. And that's it. Like you are your own center of reality and hell is isolation. Jesus is trying to get in, but you won't let him in. She says we can be so turned in on ourselves that it literally feels like hell or like it just feels like a difficulty. "It's just so good to be poor and allow like the Lord allows us to experience our palisiness before him," she says.

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