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Compendium Question 532

Part 3, Sec. 2, Ch. 2

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532. What does Jesus call for in poverty of spirit?
Jesus calls his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone. Detachment from riches — in the spirit of evangelical poverty — and self-abandonment to divine providence free us from anxiety about the future and prepare us for the blessedness of the "poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Mathew 5:3).