How to Practice True Poverty Even When You Are Rich

Parjesius painted the Athenian people with all their various characters, irascible, unjust, and constant. We must very often practice real and effective poverty in the midst of all the means and riches that God has given us. To give away what we have is to impoverish ourselves by as much as we give,. The more we give, the poorer we make ourselves. Nothing so much makes us prosper in this world as alms.