Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Do you own possessions or do they posses you?

A possession ought to belong to the possessor, not the possessor to the possession.  Whosoever, therefore, does not use his patrimony as a possession, who does not know how to give and distribute to the poor, he is the servant of his wealth, not its master; because like a servant he watches over the wealth of another and not like a master does he use it of his own.  Hence, in a disposition of this kind, we say that the man belongs to his riches, not the riches to the man.

St. Ambrose of Milan

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