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2833 "Our" bread is the "one" loaf for the "many." In the Beatitudes "poverty" is the virtue of sharing: it calls us to communicate and share both material and spiritual goods, not by coercion but out of love, so that the abundance of some may remedy the needs of others. 120

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PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER

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SECTION TWO: THE LORD'S PRAYER: "OUR FATHER!"

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ARTICLE 3: THE SEVEN PETITIONS

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120 Cf. 2 Cor 8:1-15.

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