In Support of Lent Event...

Choose a Simple Life

"…how do we get this principle of justice through love down to the level of reality, the reality of our daily lives? By cultivating in our selves these attitudes:

First, a firm determination to live much more simply, as individuals, as families, as social groups; and in this way to stop short, or at least to slow down, the expanding spiral of social competition. Let us have men and women who will resolutely set themselves against the tide of our consumer society. Men and Women who, instead of feeling compelled to acquire everything that their friends have will do away with many of the luxuries which in their social setting have become “necessities,” but which the majority of humankind must do without. And if this produces surplus income, well and good; let it be given to those for whom the necessities of life are still luxuries beyond their reach.” [Jesuit Father General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Society of Jesus]

From the website: http://www.seattleu.edu/lemlib/web_archives/Poverty/simple_life.htm