Nice article. Thank you! I’ve been reading ‘Happy Are You Poor’ by Dubay and I see some familiar topics here. I’ve been running into stuff like this a lot lately. I think I better start paying attention! :0)
That sounds like a wonderful book. You’ve mentioned it a couple of times now.
I am reading the 40 year in-the-making sequel to Canticle for Leibowitz. It has small gems of Catholic theology within it and one chapter deals with the main characters resistance to being “poor.” He’s a monk so he has already taken vows which include poverty.
He is shown that even his poverty is a form of riches because he holds that vow as a form of pride and a reference to self.
“The secret to happiness is the loss of self, the forgetting of self.”
Hard isn’t it?
Rest in peace - Fr. Dubay