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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Part of me would love to go on this</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BUT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>doesn't it seem a bit incongruous to spend so much
money studying someone who embraced 'Lady Poverty'? Yes life is not as it
was in Francis' time and cannot be so but surely there are other ways to
study the intellectual tradition?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For instance a video that could be made and viewed
in Areas so that each are could then, if they wished, run a pilgrimage to one of
the places mentioned.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or one of the franciscan Scholars could be studied
in depth.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even the General Chapter is beyond some tertiaries
- no we are not all wealthy. Is there a danger of 'one -upmanship' here. So many
pilgrimages to Asissi -yet again many cannot afford to go and yet sometmes it
might be thought to be an essential requirement! (This is not sour grapes I have
been to Asissi it was the begining of my interest in Francis)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It just worries me slightly</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Penelope Fletcher</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:39
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [TSSF-studies] PILGRIMAGE ON
THE FRANCISCAN INTELLECTUALTRADITION 7 - 15...</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">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?<BR><BR>"Personal spending is limited
to what is necessary for the health and well-being of us and of our
dependents?"<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR><BR>Gordon Plumb<BR><BR></FONT>
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