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 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 something that belongs to the community,

when we make use of an object for some other purpose than that intended by the superior,

when we give to or accept from another anything whatsoever without permission,

when, by negligence, we destroy or damage something.

When, in going from one house to another, we take something with us without permission.

In a situation where the vow is broken, the religious is bound to restitution to the community.

The virtue of poverty.

This is an evangelical virtue which impels the heart to detach itself from temporal things.

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