CCC 2546

"Blessed are the poor in spirit."³³⁷ Mt 5:3[ETML:C/]. The Beatitudes reveal an order of happiness and grace, of beauty and peace. Jesus celebrates the joy of the poor, to whom the Kingdom already belongs:³³⁸ Cf. Lk 6:20.

The Word speaks of voluntary humility as "poverty in spirit"; the Apostle gives an example of God's poverty when he says: "For your sakes he became poor."³³⁹ St. Gregory of Nyssa, De beatitudinibus 1: PG 44, 1200PG — Patrologia Graeca (Migne)D; cf. 2 Cor 8:9.