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1 posted on 07/29/2015 10:39:05 AM PDT by NRx

The title is misleading. The Monastic Life is Christian, but the Christian Life does not have to be Monastic.

2 posted on 07/29/2015 10:56:19 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)

3 posted on 07/29/2015 11:02:43 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)

Do the commandments to pray unceasingly (1 Thess. 5:17) or to sell all we have, give to the poor, and follow Christ (Matt. 19:21) only apply to monks? Aren’t all Christians called to strive after simplicity and poverty?

No, actually.

There's nothing wrong with money.

It's the LOVE of money that's the root of all evil, and it's trusting in it that is the problem.

God gives us money to minister to others. If everyone were poor, that would never happen.

Poverty is not more spiritual than wealth.

Someone has to make the money that the monks get to live off of.

4 posted on 07/29/2015 11:02:59 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)

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