034 Spiritual Poverty

During this Lenten season we continue in our seven week series on poverty and how to embrace it in order to better imitate Christ.  This episode focuses on spiritual poverty and what it means to be poor in spirit as it states in the beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."  Spiritual poverty is a lack of our own will and total dependence on the Lord, surrendering totally to Him and to accept that we cannot do anything in life on our own.  The paradox of being poor in spirit in order to be rich in the Lord and to be happy is one that is further explored.