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Blessed Are The Poor

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

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Is It a Fruitfulness or a Labor?

"The gospel's right where Jesus now wants to show us how to be like a true son, how to receive everything from the father," he says. "I am what I am in God's eyes, a poor child who possesses absolutely nothing, who receives everything, infinitely loved and totally free." He adds that if we live apart from God, life then becomes labor some and burdensome. And then it's like work that we do in the world,. But if we live in a relationship with God, then everything we do is a fruit, there's fruitfulness there.

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