AGAINST POVERTY: 3. Since I consulted in all things with so many, I nonetheless found almost no one with this opinion, neither my confessor nor the learned men with whom I dealt. They brought out so many reasons against poverty that I didnt know what to do. Since I knew it was in the rule and saw that observing poverty would be more perfect, I couldnt persuade myself that the monastery should have an income. And if sometimes they had me convinced, when I returned to prayer and contemplating Christ on the cross, so poor and so naked, I couldnt patiently accept the idea of being rich. I tearfully begged Him to ordain things so that I would see myself poor, as He was. The Book of Her Life: Chapter 35
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