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  1. In our profession, therefore, we promise God to own nothing by right of personal ownership but to hold all things in common and to use them under the direction of superiors for the common good of the Order and of the Church.
  2. It follows that none of the brothers can retain as his own any goods, whether money or income from any source whatsoever, but must hand over everything to the community.
  3. Neither should an accumulation of common goods be allowed to build up in the community. It would not serve the purpose of the Order nor its ministry since it would be contrary to that poverty which all individually and as members of the community have professed.
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