ONE MUST BECOME POOR

When we speak of the church of the poor, we are not using Marxist dialectic, as though there were another church of the rich. What we are saying is that Christ, inspired by the Spirit of God, declared, “The Lord has sent me to preach good news to the poor” – words of the Bible – so that to hear him one must become poor.

Saint †Oscar Romeo

77 DECEMBER 3, 1978