The paradox of poverty

Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

Monday, November 8, 2021

The first reading in today’s Mass (1 Kings 17:10-16) speaks to us of the paradox of poverty: it is our poverty, our neediness, that provides a doorway for God to bless us with true riches. Our emptiness provides room for God to go to work.
 

 

 

 

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