Happy are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom

by Thomas Dubay

Paperback, 2003

Barcode

5303

Call number

248.842 DUB

Status

Available

Call number

248.842 DUB

Pages

177

Description

To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal. A love-filled sharing frugality is the message, and Happy Are You Poor explains the meaning of this beatitude lived and taught by Jesus himself. But isn't simplicity in lifestyle meant only for nuns and priests? Are not all of us to enjoy the goodness and beauties of our magnificent creation? Are parents to be frugal with the children they love so much? The renowned spiritual writer Dubay gives surprising replies to these questions. He explains how material things are like extensions of our persons and thus of our love. If everyone lived this love there would be no destitution. After presenting the richness of the Gospel message, more beautiful than any other world view, he explains how Gospel frugality is lived in each state of life.… (more)

Publication

Ignatius Press (2003), Edition: New edition, 177 pages

ISBN

0898709210 / 9780898709216

UPC

008987092100

Rating

(15 ratings; 4.4)

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LibraryThing member johnredmond
Would go well with Matzko McCarthy's "The Good Life" in the parish study group I mention in my review of that book.
LibraryThing member jonmarcgrodi
Simply a must-read if you are in fact serious about taking the Christian life more seriously. Provocative and challenging in the nature of the message and yet careful, balanced, precise, and forthright, the late, great Fr. Thomas Dubay takes the issue head-on: does the Gospel call Christians to a
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simple, frugal life or not?

Few books have so challenged and convicted me in my complacency and none have left me more concretely motivated to become a more perfect imitation of Christ.

(Note - endure with patience the first few chapters. Dubay takes his time setting up this delicate issue. Persevere and you will be rewarded.)
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