Thought for the Day – 14 July – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)
Humility
“Humility is, in fact, truth.
Many think it is a menial fiction, or a pious congregation and that only a few can really achieve it.
In other words, we must disregard ourselves.
We must be content to be unknown and unesteemed.
This might seem to be contrary to, or at least, superior to human nature but it is based on the simple naked truth.
What have we that is not a gift of God?
All we have in the natural and supernatural order, we have received from God: “What hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast receive it, why dost thou boast as if thou hast not received it?” (1 Cor 4:7).
Our defects and sins are the only things which are really our own!
So we have a double motive for humility.
Everything good about us is a gift from God.
Only our sins belong to us!”
“As “pride is the beginning of all sin,”
(Eccl. 10:15)
so humility is the foundation of all virtue.
Learn to be really humble and not,
as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.”
St Bonaventure OFM (1221-1274)
Seraphic Doctor of the Church
Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/01/21/thought-for-the-day-21-january-humility/
AnaStpaul 