![]() ![]() In their state of neediness, dependence, and dissatisfaction with life, they may welcome Gods free gift of love.Īs an exercise I went back over Monika Hellwigs list, substituting the word “rich” for “poor,” and changing each sentence to its opposite. In summary, through no choice of their ownthey may urgently wish otherwisepoor people find themselves in a posture that befits the grace of God. The poor can respond to the call of the Gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything. When the poor have the Gospel preached to them, it sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding.ġ0. The fears of the poor are more realistic and less exaggerated, because they already know that one can survive great suffering and want.ĩ. ![]() The poor can wait, because they have acquired a kind of dogged patience born of acknowledged dependence.Ĩ. The poor can distinguish between necessities and luxuries.ħ. The poor expect little from competition and much from cooperation.Ħ. The poor have no exaggerated sense of their own importance, and no exaggerated need of privacy.ĥ. The poor rest their security not on things but on people.Ĥ. The poor know not only their dependence on God and on powerful people but also their interdependence with one another.ģ. The poor know they are in urgent need of redemption.Ģ. What makes the poor deserving of Gods concern? I received help on this issue from a writer names Monika Hellwig, who lists the following “advantages” to being poor:ġ. Why would God single out the poor for special attention over any other group? I used to wonder. Catholic scholars coined the phrase “Gods preferential option for the poor” to describe a phenomenon they found throughout both the Old and New Testaments: Gods partiality toward the poor and the disadvantaged. ![]()
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