[TSSF-studies] PILGRIMAGE ON THE FRANCISCAN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION 7 - 15...

[GPlumb2000 at aol.com]

Very splendid - but also very expensive. I would love to be able to go. But 
how does spending the best part of £1,000 on this fit with Day 12 of the 
Principles?

"Personal spending is limited to what is necessary for the health and 
well-being of us and of our dependents?"

I think there is a case for a thorough-going discussion of what poverty has 
meant in the Franciscan tradition and what it might mean today. There has been 
a great deal written about poverty and the Franciscan tradition in recent 
years.

An issue that keeps nagging me is that living simply/espousing voluntary 
poverty is only an option for those who are comfortably off. What of those for 
whom voluntary poverty is not an option because they are already grindlngly poor? 
Is the Franciscan way not open to them? (How far does the socio-economic make 
up of the TO reflect that of our wider society - and if not why not?


Gordon Plumb

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