CCC 2544

Jesus enjoins his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone, and bids them "renounce all that [they have]" for his sake and that of the Gospel.³³⁴ Lk 14:33; cf. Mk 8:35. Shortly before his passion he gave them the example of the poor widow of Jerusalem who, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.³³⁵ Cf. Lk 21:4. The precept of detachment from riches is obligatory for entrance into the Kingdom of heaven.