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Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the Diary of

St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. Today, we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 93, The Vow of Poverty.

The vow of poverty is the voluntary renunciation of the right over property or to the use of such property with the purpose of pleasing God.

What objects does the vow of poverty concern?

All those goods and those objects which appertain to the community, we have no longer any

right over anything that has been given to us once it has been accepted, whether an article

or money. All these donations and presents,

which may have been given to us out of gratitude or in any other way, belong by right to the

community. We cannot make use without violating the vow of any wages we may receive

for work or even any annuity.

When do we break or violate the vow in a matter which entails the Seventh Commandment?

We break or violate it when, without permission, we take for ourselves anything that belongs to the house,

when, without permission, we retain

something in order to appropriate it, and when, without authorization, we sell or exchange

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