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Christian Poverty, Vocations, Wolves, and Beet Burgers (Fr. John Burns) | Ep. 349

Pints With Aquinas

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What Do You Know About the Missionaries of Charity?

I've learned more from them, i think, than aybody else in the church, after my own parents. I don't find a better example of someone straight up hearing the gospel mandate and getting out there to live it. The lynch pin for the whole thing is their radical poverty. They all sleep in kind of a common dormitory; rotate beds cut up on a monthly basis. So they can't even get attached to sleeping in the same place because the homeless don't have say, they don't have their own cell. It's like two habits, one pair of sandals. One pen, one pencil, one blue bag with wooden handles,.One ruler, one tooth brush

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