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6 Saints who endured crippling poverty
https://aleteia.org/2020/05/02/6-saints-who-endured-crippling-poverty/
Bl. Isidore Bakanja (1887-1909) grew up in poverty in what's today the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When he was a teenager, he left home to find work as a mason, where he first encountered ...aleteia.org
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DIVINE INTIMACY - Carmelite Spirituality - by Fr. Gabriele di Santa Maria Maddalena / Published: 1 January 1900 AD
To imitate Jesus' humility perfectly, we must share in His hidden life, veiling, as He did, everything in us that might attract attention or praise from others, whatever might single us out or make us noticed, fleeing as far as we are able from every mark of distinction. "Ama nesciri et pro nihilo reputare", love to live unknown and reputed as nothing ('Imitation of Christ'-Ch.1: 2-3); by doing this we will become more like Jesus who, being God, willed to take "the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man" (Philippians 2). Jesus himself has taught us how to practice the hidden life, insisting that we do our good works in secret, only to please God, and without ostentation. He tells us also to guard the secret of our interior life and our relations with Him (Matthew 6)~