The Portiuncula, located in Jerusalem, Ohio, in the Diocese of Steubenville, is home to the Franciscan Lay Apostolate. We are humbly committed to imitating the Gospel life of Christ, and observing the Sacraments. Placing ourselves under strict and holy obedience to the Bishop of Steubenville, the Magisterium, and Father Nick Ward, we follow the Medieval Penitential First Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, dated 1221 A.D.
Monday, February 27, 2006
The Sin Of Possessiveness
When we think of possessions, we usually have material things in mind, but St. Francis used to remind his brothers that possessions are both material and spiritual, anything we appropriate to ourselves. For him, it is not possessions which are sinful, but possessiveness, appropriating to ourselves what is not ours.
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