The Practice of Perfection and Christian VirtuesPart Three On the vow of poverty That the Vow of Poverty Is the Foundation of Evangelical Perfection Of the Great Reward Wherewith the Lord Rewards the Poor of Spirit That God Rewards the Poor in Spirit Not Only in the Next Life but Also in This In What Poverty of Spirit Consists Of Religious Who, Having Left Greater Things, Get a Passion in Religion for Lesser Things Of Three Degrees of Poverty Of Some Means to Arrive at Poverty in Spirit and Preserve Ourselves Therein Of Another Means That Will Greatiy Help Us to Attain Poverty in Spirit and Keep Us in the Same What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples To What and How a Religious Is Bound by the Vow of Poverty Explaining How It Is against the Vow of Poverty to Receive or Give Anything without Leave of the Superior, Even though the Thing Be Not Belonging to the House Coming Down to Particular Cases of Certain Things Contrary to the Vow of Poverty An Answer to an Objection Which Throws Much Light on This Matter That the Vow of Poverty Binds under Mortal Sin, and What Quantity Is Enough to Make a Mortal Sin Whether a Religious Can Receive Money to Lay Out in Pious Works without Leave of the Superior, and When He Would Sin Therein against the Vow of Poverty What Has Been Said Is Confirmed by Some Examples
