S Bernard: “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven."

“Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life."

-- Mt 19:23-30

All Christ's faithful are to "direct their affections rightly, lest they be hindered in their pursuit of perfect charity by the use of worldly things and by an adherence to riches which is contrary to the spirit of evangelical poverty."

-- CCC 2545

Art: Bernard exorcising a possession, altarpiece by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500.