Author Topic: Seventeen Evidences of a Lack of Humility (Read 6919 times)

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #25 on:** May 14, 2011, 12:19:11 PM »

It's been posted often before, but I dont think it can ever get old.

LITANY OF HUMILITY

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, hear me

From the desire of being esteemed,
From the desire of being loved,
From the desire of being extolled,
From the desire of being honored,
From the desire of being praised,
From the desire of being preferred,
From the desire of being consulted,
From the desire of being approved,

Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
From the fear of being calumniated,
From the fear of being forgotten,
From the fear of being ridiculed,
From the fear of being wronged,
From the fear of being suspected,

Deliver me, Jesus.

That others may be loved more than I,
That others may be esteemed more than I,
That in the opinion of the world, others may increase, and I may decrease,
That others may be chosen and I set aside,
That others may be praised and I unnoticed,
That others may be preferred to me in everything,
That others become holier than I, provided I become as holy as I should,

Jesus grant me the grace to desire it.

Amen.

clare · « **Reply #26 on:** May 14, 2011, 05:18:53 PM »

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8. To use yourself as an example in conversations

I never do that.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #27 on:** May 14, 2011, 07:48:35 PM »

Quote from: clare

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8. To use yourself as an example in conversations

I never do that.

Really? I do. :wink:

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #28 on:** May 14, 2011, 11:41:39 PM »

Wow, these seventeen signs of a lack of humility are like my unauthorized biography!

A tangent apropos to the topic: In the Roman Missal (Missae propriae quae in aliquibus locis celebrari possunt) there is a Mass for the Feast of the Humility of Blessed Mary the Virgin (17 July), which John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, has as the "Lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary" for 12 May in an appendix in his translation of the Roman Breviary. Here is the Collect as he translates it:

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O God, Who knowest the proud from afar and hast respect unto the lowly, grant unto us Thy servants that we may ever copy with pure thoughts the lowliness of blessed Mary always a Virgin, who by her maidenhood was pleasant in the sight of our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, and in her lowliness did conceive the same, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity' of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Attached is the text of the Office as translated by the Marquess of Bute.

Enjoy!

Telesphorus · « **Reply #29 on:** September 18, 2011, 05:56:47 PM »

I would just comment - going along actively or passively with untruths is never humility.

Those who harp constantly on humility are often those with a lust for power over others.