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Category: Humility

The Disease and the Cure

Thank God, I’m not like the Pharisee. That may be our first reaction to the haughty prayer of the prideful…

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Strive Always to Grow in Humility

Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Heb 12:18-19; 22-24; Lk 14:1,7-14 “All we need is pride! All we need is pride!” This jingle playing on radio recently caught my attention. I listened more closely to understand why we needed to be more proud. To my relief, it was a commercial for a detergent powder called Pride. There […]

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Saint Gemma vs. the Temptation to Worldliness

It is striking, when reading about the saints in their own words, just how terrible an opinion they hold of themselves. But it makes sense: as sanctity grows, so too does the awareness of one’s own sinfulness. St. Gemma Galgani was a mystic visionary who died at the age of 25 in 1903. Her intimate […]

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