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POVERTY  \nIntroduction  \n274 1. In response to the powerful calls of recent General Congregations1 Jesuits have made noticeable efforts to live amore authentic poverty, both personally and in communities. Work with and for the poor has been promoted; the generosity and hospitality of our houses has increased; separation of community from work has brought greater clarity regarding expenses; thereis more financial cooperation and a sharper sensitivity to justice. All in all, we have advanced in detachment, simplicity of life, solidarity and fraternal sharing — attitudes which mark the evangelical poverty we promised.2 For all of this, we must be grateful to God .  \n275 2. At the same time, despite this progress, we must admit that we have not yet reached the deeper renewal that GC 32 in its Decree 12 asks of us in this regard . The postulates sent to this Congregation show dissatisfaction with our comfortable style of life; they call on us to consider whether our way of life bears credible witness to the vow of evangelical poverty .  \n276 3. This is not a marginal concern. We know well that, for Saint Ignatius, poverty is \"a safeguard of religious life,\"whose lack \"weakens, wears out and ruins\" our way of being.3 Moved by the Spirit of Jesus, Ignatius and his first companions felt called to \"preach in poverty . \"4 The authenticity of our poverty is the test of our being or not being Jesuits, manifestly following Christ \"poor and humble,\" as we learned in the Spiritual Exercises.5  \n1 GC 31, D 18; GC 32, D 12; D 2, nn. 20, 28; D 4, n. 49; GC 33, D l, nn. 23-27; D 2.  \n2 GC 32 already expressed the \"analogic\" character of the religious poverty (D 12, n.7): \"In a world of mass starvation, no one can lightly call himself poor . It is perhaps regrettable that we have no other word to designate this note of religious life, since poverty means very different things to different people . At the very least, religious poverty would try hard to limit rather than to expand consumption. \"  \n3 Cf . Const . [553], [816] . Cf . also Letter to the Fathersand Brothers at Padua (7 August 1547), MHSI Epp .S .Ign . , I, 572-577 . Although written by Polanco at the request of St Ignatius, it contains the attitude of the Founder regarding poverty understood as a gift of God which draws Jesuits to the poor, \"the friends of the (Eternal) King . \"  \n4To Jaime Cassador, 12 February 1536, S .Ign . , [Epp. et](Epp. et)[ ](Epp. et)instruct. , MHSI I,96, Cf . Spiritual Diary, (MHSI, Const . I 86-158, n.15); Deliberation on poverty (MHSI Const . I .78-83) .  \n5 Cf . SpEx [116] .  \nThe Apostolic and Prophetic Dimension of Our Poverty  \n277 4. Our poverty is apostolic because it witnesses to God as the one Lord of our lives and the only Absolute; it distances us from material goods and frees us from all attachment so that we can be fully available to serve the Gospel and dedicate ourselves to the most needy . In this way poverty is itself a mission and a proclamation of the Beatitudes of the Kingdom .  \n278 5. Our poverty is also prophetic. In recent decades the cry of the poor has become more piercing. But the gap between rich and poor is being reinforced rather than diminishing. Unbridled capitalism produces disproportionate growth for some economic sectors, exclusion and marginalization for many others . Contemporary society is infected by consumerism, hedonism and lack of responsibility. The values considered important today are personal fulfilment, competition, efficiency and success at any cost . In view of this panorama of contrasts, our personal and community poverty becomes a sign and message of a different logic, that of evangelical solidarity.  \n279 6. Poverty is the unequivocal condition of our credibility.6 In the face of the attitudes and values that dominate the mentality of the world today, the radical exercise of evangelical poverty becomes a counter-cultural witness to the value of gratuity which Saint Ignatius praised so much .7 By this gra","cbCaipt9GGouChko","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipt9GGouChko","pdf",24414,"English","# 9. 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