Evagrius’s ideal monk lives simply, at the edge of poverty, so to speak, accumulating only enough to support himself and...
On Poverty – St Basil the Great
The harshest form of covetousness is not even to give things perishable to those who need them. “But whom do...
Stories From The Sayings Of The Desert Fathers
The Naked Beggar and the Monk One of the Fathers went off to the city to sell his manual work,...
Monastic Poverty And Real Poverty
We may at times mix between ‘monastic poverty’ and ‘real poverty’ when we read the life of a saint or...
On Poverty
You will be proclaimed charitable, not simply because you have refused to accept something from another person, but rather you...