Sunday Evangelium - Totus2us

Fr Marcus: "Humility is truth. St Teresa of Avila tells us this. Humility acknowledges that the source of all our gifts and achievements is God and His grace. Humility doesn't gloat over those achievements, it doesn't show off, it doesn't enjoy any superiority from the gifts given by God. and it doesn't despise the weakness of others. Humility leads us to offer those gifts for the sake of the other. That's the kind of humility that Our Lord shows us: "Though His state was divine he humbled himself to assume even the condition of a slave". .. So humility is the foundation of the whole spiritual life, as all the writers of our tradition tell us. If we don't have this foundation then everything else is unstable. It's humility that opens the way to real greatness, because it is only by the truthful recognition of what we are that we can aspire to what is greater than ourselves. The proud person is preoccupied with the contemplation a very small object, namely himself, but the humble person can look up to the star