Money and the Martin family
Louis and Zélie broadcasts on RCF – September 24, October 1 and 8, 2023
Louis and Zélie Martin teach us to consider money for what it is, and help us to work on inner freedom, a hierarchy of our relationships, to know how to serve God first?
Money is everywhere, difficult to free yourself from it, but should we free ourselves from it or put it in its right place? The Martin couple help us to understand that we must reconsider our lives with the perspective of our ultimate ends, to be in “the world but not of the world”.
It is good to earn money but not to lose one's life: this is what the example of the Martins shows us, well-off entrepreneurs, who work for their family and for their workers, but never for the sole gain or for the accumulation of goods, or even for worldliness.
Bourgeois without the bourgeois spirit: generosity towards the poor and the Church, happy sobriety, honesty in business.
Saints Louis and Zélie Martin are precursors of transformative finance, they help us understand that we must put our money where it will bear fruit: spiritual, human, and social fruit.
Investing to transform the world can involve financing an original educational project, a place for spi training or a meeting with the Lord, a work in the service of the dignity of people...
