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Yeah. I'm so with you. Another reason I like monks.
Surprisingly, it turns out that Franciscans have never been paragons of poverty. It started even during Francis's lifetime, conflicts between his ideal of radical poverty and other friars' unwillingness to give up their creature comforts. Comfort seems to have won out in the end.
Not that Benedictines don't have their own tradition of prosperity, but the ones I know really do live pretty simply.
It's that odd human thing, I think. We have a purpose, an exciting, motivating purpose. And we build ways of working toward it. And we fall in love with the ways we've made or with our role in them, or with the power they give us, and we forget about the purpose, or maybe still talk about it. Sometimes.
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Surprisingly, it turns out that Franciscans have never been paragons of poverty. It started even during Francis's lifetime, conflicts between his ideal of radical poverty and other friars' unwillingness to give up their creature comforts. Comfort seems to have won out in the end.
Not that Benedictines don't have their own tradition of prosperity, but the ones I know really do live pretty simply.
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