Charity prior to Poverty

During the Administrators' meeting that I attended yesterday, one of the things most often repeated was the Constitution article no. 184.  Practically everyone, beginning with the Provincial, quoted it at some point or the other of their presentation.  It reads as follows:

The economer is the one immediately responsible for the administration of the temporal goods of the religious house, in dependence on the rector with his council.  He carries out his service in a spirit of charity and poverty.  

While most of the animators highlighted the part of 'dependence on the rector', what struck me most was the last phrase of the article, 'charity and poverty'.  Interestingly charity precedes poverty... precisely while talking about administration.  Makes a lot of sense when administration is viewed as an apostolate and a mission rather than a task to be accomplished.