Thomas Dubay
Thomas DubayHappy are you poor : the simple life and spiritual freedom

Happy are you poor : the simple life and spiritual freedom

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Happy are you poor : the simple life and spiritual freedom

To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal.

About Thomas Dubay

Father Thomas Dubay, S.M., was a well-known retreat master and expert in the spiritual life. A Marist Priest, Father took a Ph.D.

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What a concept! This book came along at just the right moment in my life.
AWESOME AUTHOR.
Great Book.
This is a really great book for anyone who wants to really follow Jesus.
This book is one life instruction book and general guide on how to live according to God's plan that I will never forget and will always strive to live by. I recommend this book to everyone who is willing, as Fr.
IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN CALLED TO A MORE SIMPLE, GOD-CENTERED LIFE, THIS WILL COMPLETE YOUR CONVERSION TO A TOTALLY-FOR-GOD HOLY POVERTY.
I initially thought this book was about the Beatitudes. Then I saw "The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom" - I always think I need to simplify life - so it sounded like a good one.
Great book. It really challenges you to examine your lifestyle and compare to the lifestyle that Christ and his Apostles call us to in the New Testament.
Fr. Dubay answers the hard questions and gives the concrete, practical examples that are so necessary for being able to implement Gospel living.
This book is not particularly designed to help you feel good but to instruct you to feel good. I know when I read it that I came up short in that detachment of spirit and absolute charity towards our neighbor which characterizes the friends of God.
This book is not addressed to the poor. It is intended for all the rest of us who kept looking the other way when the Beatitudes were read.
Anyone who is striving to become a saint must read this book. Fr.
This book really laid it down what the Gospel meant by wealth and poverty, and how it looks in life. This is the kind of exegesis I was really yearning, as I felt that everything I had heard before was fluffed up in some way, to accommodate the comfort we're accustomed to.
Although Fr. Dubay presents his central hypothesis of this book as standard Christian teaching, what he proposes is in fact an extremely radical and quite subversive teaching.
About the good news of Jesus Christ is proclaimed here. The examples of the saints that Fr.

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