Therefore the priest to whom the care of stewardship has been committed receives from the people the things to be dispensed, not only without greed, but even with the praise of piety, and faithfully dispenses what he has received—he who has left all his own goods to his parents, or distributed them to the poor, or joined them to the goods of the Church, and out of love of poverty has placed himself in the number of the poor: so that from the source by which he ministers to the poor, he himself also lives as a voluntary poor man. The clergy too, whom either their own will or their birth has made poor, receive the necessities of life along with the perfection of virtue, whether living in their own houses or in the community: because it is not the greed of having that leads them to receive these things, but the necessity of living that compels them.