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Sancte, sancte, amare morti decadas nos.
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Sorry about that.
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Okay, there we go.
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Good morning everyone, and welcome to Tuesday of the second week in Lent.
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We are on day 14 here out of 46 total days of Lent, so we're moving along, and, yeah, so today we're going to talk about humility and, as I've done in the past, I'm going to throw up an image on screen.
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There won't be anything for you to look at, you just listen.
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You can catch these on YouTube, on Rumble and on all the different audio podcast apps.
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So, without further ado, let us get going.
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Tuesday of the second week in Lent, the Grand Year of Humility, from the Gospel of St Matthew, chapter 23, verse 12.
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Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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The gospel of today presents two kinds of men the Pharisees and the disciples of Jesus.
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Who are these disciples?
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They are those who knew how to recognize him as the Messiah.
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They are those who knew how to recognize him as the Messiah.
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The Pharisees, on the other hand, are too prideful, too full of themselves to do so.
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They do not like the simple yet demanding holiness of our Lord, the first virtue to cultivate in order to receive our Lord and to become his disciple is humility.
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This disposition of soul is not natural to us because of the disordered love of ourselves inherited from our first parents.
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Yet humility is truth.
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Once we begin to realize what God is and what we are, we understand that we are nothing of ourselves and so are led to live in constant dependence upon God.
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Genuine humility likewise incites us to consider, most and others, the good that we ourselves do not possess, and to see in ourselves the evil that is not in them, in order to rectify the natural tendency which we have to hide our weaknesses from ourselves and to exaggerate them in others.
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The Blessed Virgin gave us a beautiful example of humility when, before the angel, she gave herself the title of Handmaid of the Lord, at the very moment when the angel was inviting her to become the Mother of God.
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St Joseph, the shepherds, the three kings, the Samaritan woman, st Mary Magdalene, the apostles after Pentecost were all humble.
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The saints of all times have been humble.
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Humility is the gateway of salvation.
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The Blessed Virgin sang it in her Magnificat Kind Jesus, I too wish to be humble.
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Help me to become more humble every day.
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This may be so.
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And now from the Litany of Humility by Cardinal Mary Duval, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
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O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, hear me From the desire of being loved.
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Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being honored.
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Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being honored.
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Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being preferred to others.
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Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being approved.
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Deliver me, jesus, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
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A couple of thoughts.
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The first from St John Vianney Humility is to the other virtues what the chain is to the rosary.
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Take away humility and all of the virtues disappear.
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And now a thought from Bishop it's either Chevrot or Chevro, not sure.
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Humility does not consist in hiding away and doing nothing, but in not admiring ourselves when we have done the most and the best we could.
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And now five resolutions.
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Number one let us put ourselves in our proper place before God and before others.
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Number two let us look to see if we are faithful in all of the humble obligations of our duty of state.
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Humble obligations of our duty of state housework, cleaning our rooms, schoolwork, study, professional responsibilities, etc.
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And let us rectify our behavior if necessary.
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Resolution 3.
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Let us strive not to vaunt ourselves before others and know how to admit it when we are in the wrong.
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4.
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Let us not vaunt ourselves before others and know how to admit it when we are in the wrong.
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5.
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Let us not involve ourselves in what does not concern us.
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Resolution 5.
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Let us be willing to counsel those in doubt.
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There we are, for today there is our reading on humility.
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You know, we all know the danger that pride poses, right, um, yeah, we, we, as as often as that is emphasized it's actually pretty rarely that that the opposite of pride, humility is is emphasized as important.
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We all know not to be prideful, but yet how often do we think about what we need to do to be humble?
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Um, you know, and uh, uh, the blessed mother is is one of the best examples of that, outside of outside of christ, of course.
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Um, just her humility and her, her fiat, and her yes to the angel gabriel.
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Um, saint joseph as well is an amazing example of humility.
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The fact that, um, there's different positions from the fathers and saints on on why saint joseph wanted to to quietly put Mary away.
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But one of the one of those theories or thoughts is that he, he did so because he knew, he, he at least had some idea of what, of who Christ was going to be and that Mary was going to be the mother of God, and he, being as humble as he was, felt or knew that he was not worthy to be involved in that.
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There's so many saints that that give just amazing, amazing examples of humility.
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And, as Father says here, that the saints of all times have been humble and that humility is the gateway of salvation, and I love what St John Biani says.
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You know that humility is basically the chain of the rosary.
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You know the chain of all the other virtues, that without humility they all fall apart.
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And then that's because with with pride, all those virtues, all those virtues can become vices.
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You know that's what vices usually are.
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Is is either a lack of a virtue or a virtue taken too far, and pride can definitely cause that.
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Um, so what?
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The one of the, the prayer that we said today, was a portion of the litany of humility.
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If you've never prayed that, it is a great prayer, um, a great prayer for humility.
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But it's one of those where kind of be careful what you ask for.
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Not that you shouldn't pray it, not that anything bad would you know, will happen, but a lot of times you might not be ready to be as humbled as you might be made from praying that prayer.
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I've heard lots of cases of people praying that prayer and then they are humbled, just like they asked for in.
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They did not realize how maybe unready they were for that.
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So, um, not that we should be hesitant to pray something like that, but be aware that when you pray you should mean it and if you're going, you know if, if you're praying to be relieved from the desire of being loved, be prepared to not be loved or something you know, something similar along those lines.
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We need to mean what we pray for and you need to be like, you need to be prepared for that.
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But anyway, so that is humility.
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Lent is a great time to work on humility.
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Just think how humble Christ was throughout his ignominious passion and death.
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None of us will ever reach that level of perfect humility, but we need to strive for that during Lent.
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So that is today, and tomorrow, wednesday of the second week in Lent, we will talk about the Christian meaning of suffering.
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That should be a good one.
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Anyways, thank you all for joining me on these mornings and I will see you all again tomorrow.
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Thank you.