The Holy Father Pope Francis has issued his Lenten message for 2014 and it focuses on poverty.
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-lenten-message-2014
St. Francis de Sales also spoke of poverty.
Poverty of spirit, St. Francis used to say, comprised three excellent qualities. First, Simplicity; second, Humility; third, Christian Poverty. Simplicity, which consists in the unity of duty and affection towards God, attracts to that one grand object all the multiplicity of interests which are not of God. Humility, like poverty, sees nothing beneath itself; considers itself as the most worthless of all men, and estimates itself no better than as an unprofitable servant.
Christian Poverty may be distinguished into three classes. The first is excellent, and may find entrance amidst wealth and prosperity. And such was the poverty of Abraham, of David, of St. Louis, who were poor in spirit, being ready to receive poverty with thankfulness, had it pleased God to have reduced them to want.
The second is doubly miserable, having all the inconveniences of poverty, with a tormenting desire of Wealth.
The third is what the Sacred writers recommend, to be contented with the state to which We are born, or to which some change of fortune reduced us; and then if We acquiesce willingly, and if we then bless God, we follow the example of Jesus Christ, and of his Apostles, who, we know, to have lived poor.
There is another mode of practicing this poverty, for when, according to our Lord’s advice, we sell all that we have and give to the poor, to follow him in that state of life which for us he endured; then do we enrich ourselves by poverty. This is worthily done, when he who has renounced Wealth from principles of piety, works with his hands, not only to support his own life, but also to distribute to the poor. On this subject St. Paul says,—” I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel i yea, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities.” Acts xx. 33. 34.
Source: The Beauties of St. Francis de Sales, by Bishop Belley