Catholic Wisdom

"Avarice is an inordinate love of riches and the good things of this life. Jesus Christ, in order to offer us a cure, was Himself born into great poverty and deprived of so many material comforts. He chose a Mother who was poor, and he willed to pass as the Son of a humble workman."

—Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, Meditation on Notre-Dame d'Ars, no. 23.