Poverty
St. Margaret Mary distinguished two kinds of poverty- exterior poverty, which consists in privation of goods of this world, and interior poverty, which is one with renouncement and detachment.
It ought to have no limit but the poverty of the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
“In the Holy Eucharist, “said St Margaret Mary, “Jesus has made Himself poor. He is in a condition to receive from His creatures whatever they will give- whatever they will give back- to Him.
We imitate Him by our vow of poverty, allowing ourselves to be given this or that, or to be deprived of it”
Such was the inviolable rule followed by St. Margaret Mary.
Following the example of this Saint, religious will have the treasures of the Heart of Jesus reserved for them.
Christians not bound by vow to poverty can yet be led by its spirit! How you rejoice the Heart of Jesus, who said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” What is this true kingdom of God if not the Heart of Jesus?
Source: Religious and the Sacred Heart by Fr Alfred Yenveux