What comes to mind when you hear “poor in spirit”? In a general audience on May 2, 2020, Pope Francis told us, “The ‘poor in spirit’ are those who are and feel poor, beggars, in the depths of their being.”

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Francis knew he couldn’t live the way the Lord asked and still remain part of the social structure. The only way he saw to accomplish this other way of living was to commit to a life of voluntary poverty – what he called non-possession. When Francis started his order of brotherhood, he told his brothers: “We do not want to possess anything in this world.”