Toward Easter - Daily Readings & Meditations for Lent 2025 - Day 14 の全文書き起こし

Humility is the gateway of salvation. 00:03:15.048 --> 00:03:23.151 The Blessed Virgin sang it in her Magnificat Kind Jesus, I too wish to be humble. 00:03:23.151 --> 00:03:25.961 Help me to become more humble every day. 00:03:25.961 --> 00:03:27.983 This may be so. 00:03:28.903 --> 00:03:50.750 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. 00:03:50.750 --> 00:03:59.544 O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, hear me From the desire of being loved. 00:03:59.544 --> 00:04:04.867 Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being honored. 00:04:04.867 --> 00:04:06.598 Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being honored. 00:04:06.598 --> 00:04:13.358 Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being preferred to others. 00:04:13.358 --> 00:04:18.958 Deliver me, jesus, from the desire of being approved. 00:04:18.958 --> 00:04:28.658 Deliver me, jesus, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, amen. 00:04:28.677 --> 00:04:29.079 A couple of thoughts. 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:40.156 The first from St John Vianney Humility is to the other virtues what the chain is to the rosary. 00:04:40.156 --> 00:04:42.000 No-transcript. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.091 Take away humility and all of the virtues disappear. 00:04:46.091 --> 00:04:55.033 And now a thought from Bishop it's either Chevrot or Chevro, not sure. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:05.351 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. 00:05:05.351 --> 00:05:09.507 And now five resolutions. 00:05:09.507 --> 00:05:15.653 Number one let us put ourselves in our proper place before God and before others. 00:05:15.653 --> 00:05:24.413 Number two let us look to see if we are faithful in all of the humble obligations of our duty of state. 00:05:24.413 --> 00:05:33.283 Humble obligations of our duty of state housework, cleaning our rooms, schoolwork, study, professional responsibilities, etc. 00:05:33.283 --> 00:05:35.629 And let us rectify our behavior if necessary. 00:05:38.221 --> 00:05:39.064 Resolution 3. 00:05:39.064 --> 00:05:46.670 Let us strive not to vaunt ourselves before others and know how to admit it when we are in the wrong. 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:50.531 4. 00:05:50.531 --> 00:05:53.779 Let us not vaunt ourselves before others and know how to admit it when we are in the wrong. 00:05:53.779 --> 00:05:59.971 5. 00:05:59.971 --> 00:06:02.759 Let us not involve ourselves in what does not concern us. 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.982 Resolution 5. 00:06:04.982 --> 00:06:12.079 Let us be willing to counsel those in doubt. 00:06:13.786 --> 00:06:26.519 There we are, for today there is our reading on humility. 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:46.009 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. 00:06:46.009 --> 00:06:51.204 We all know not to be prideful, but yet how often do we think about what we need to do to be humble? 00:06:51.204 --> 00:07:02.966 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. 00:07:02.966 --> 00:07:09.475 Um, just her humility and her, her fiat, and her yes to the angel gabriel. 00:07:10.115 --> 00:07:15.129 Um, saint joseph as well is an amazing example of humility. 00:07:15.129 --> 00:07:27.134 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. 00:07:27.134 --> 00:07:55.163 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. 00:07:55.163 --> 00:08:04.461 There's so many saints that that give just amazing, amazing examples of humility. 00:08:04.461 --> 00:08:17.276 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. 00:08:17.276 --> 00:08:21.403 You know that humility is basically the chain of the rosary. 00:08:21.403 --> 00:08:25.619 You know the chain of all the other virtues, that without humility they all fall apart. 00:08:25.619 --> 00:08:31.658 And then that's because with with pride, all those virtues, all those virtues can become vices. 00:08:31.658 --> 00:08:33.663 You know that's what vices usually are. 00:08:33.663 --> 00:08:40.442 Is is either a lack of a virtue or a virtue taken too far, and pride can definitely cause that. 00:08:40.442 --> 00:08:43.398 Um, so what? 00:08:43.597 --> 00:08:47.851 The one of the, the prayer that we said today, was a portion of the litany of humility. 00:08:47.851 --> 00:08:54.830 If you've never prayed that, it is a great prayer, um, a great prayer for humility. 00:08:54.830 --> 00:09:01.798 But it's one of those where kind of be careful what you ask for. 00:09:01.798 --> 00:09:17.804 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. 00:09:17.804 --> 00:09:26.183 I've heard lots of cases of people praying that prayer and then they are humbled, just like they asked for in. 00:09:26.183 --> 00:09:29.720 They did not realize how maybe unready they were for that. 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:50.365 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. 00:09:50.365 --> 00:09:56.581 We need to mean what we pray for and you need to be like, you need to be prepared for that. 00:09:56.581 --> 00:09:59.899 But anyway, so that is humility. 00:10:00.129 --> 00:10:03.660 Lent is a great time to work on humility. 00:10:03.660 --> 00:10:09.475 Just think how humble Christ was throughout his ignominious passion and death. 00:10:09.475 --> 00:10:17.794 None of us will ever reach that level of perfect humility, but we need to strive for that during Lent. 00:10:17.794 --> 00:10:27.081 So that is today, and tomorrow, wednesday of the second week in Lent, we will talk about the Christian meaning of suffering. 00:10:27.081 --> 00:10:28.774 That should be a good one. 00:10:28.774 --> 00:10:35.211 Anyways, thank you all for joining me on these mornings and I will see you all again tomorrow. 00:10:35.211 --> 00:11:03.383 Thank you.