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Life of Poverty
"With nothing of one's own" (Rule I) neither in private nor in common; neither affectively nor effectively; neither internally nor externally.
The "peak of the highest poverty" is the most specific and vital characteristic of the Franciscan religious life. St. Francis of Assisi is the Poverello par excellence. And we, his daughters, in imitation of him, must be the qualified witnesses of the poverty of Jesus and of his Mother.
"What virtue - asks the Holy Father Paul VI - must primarily distinguish your religious life? Anyone who knows Franciscans answers: poverty, that poverty which is transformed into love, which wants to imitate and love the Poor Christ, and which considers God the only true riches of the religious soul".
And a little further on, for the ongoing renewal, the Holy Father himself recommends referring to "the authentic Franciscan tradition in its loving and courageous tendency to the literal observance of the Gospel word", and to be "poor both in the spirit of detachment and in raw reality of scarcity and suffering".
We could thus summarise our life of poverty in a few words:
to live like the truly poor, content with the bare essentials, with the bare essentials to support themselves and work.
Evangelical poverty, poverty of spirit must also be lived by the sisters in its visible concreteness (in the cells, furnishings, clothing, and work tools). It must be lived in economic insecurity with the exclusion of any fixed income and that which is purely a luxury (particularly smoking). The life of poverty must be animated by unlimited trust in divine Providence and in the maternal assistance of the Our Lady, which never fails.