One day when [St.] Francis met a poor man, he said to his companion: “This man’s poverty brings great shame on us; it passes judgment on our poverty.”
“How so, brother?” his companion replied. “I am greatly ashamed,” he answered, “when I find someone poorer than myself. I chose holy poverty as my Lady, my delight, and my riches of spirit and body. And the whole world has heard this news, that I professed poverty before God and people. Therefore I ought to be ashamed when I come upon someone poorer than myself.”
from A Mirror of the Perfection
-Early Documents, Volume III, page 249
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