“My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God…. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
The old testament teaching and the parable in the home of the Pharisee offer a great challenge. The first sin listed in the capital sins is pride. The first recorded sin in Genesis can be traced to pride. Society today seems to make us try to be better than the next person, stronger than another nation, richer as we try to get ahead. Where is humility?
Humility is a forgotten virtue. What do I have that is not gift? What have I received that I did not deserve? What have I offered to someone else in need? A prayer, prayed daily by Cardinal Merry De Val, is known as the Litany of Humility. Find it on goggle and prayerfully reflect upon it and you too will be ‘loved more than a giver of gifts’.