What is humility? - 2nd Saturday of Easter

Saturday, April 25th, 2020

All wrap yourselves in humility to be servants of each other, because God refuses the proud and will always favour the humble. Humility. Ah, humility. That so difficult of virtues, yet that most Christian of them. For a Christian, for anyone, humility is one of the keys to a happy life.

But what is humility? Some of the saints show us some of the way. St Teresa of Avila says: True humility consists in being content with all that God is pleased to ordain for us, believing ourselves unworthy to be called His servants. There is something for us to have a go at - because are we content with what God has given me today? My spouse, my state of life, my family, my work - or lack of work - with my boss and my colleagues - my own weakness and fallenness? Obviously, the Lord asks us to reject sin, and we need to take care of ourselves and take ourselves out of situations which are dangerous for us. But the day and situation I have been gifted by God today: do I give him thanks? Do I seek to see his plan in it? Am I there telling God how it should happen - or do I receive it as a grateful child?

Let us pray:

O God, who raised up Saint Mark, your Evangelist,

and endowed him with the grace to preach the

Gospel,

grant, we pray,

that we may so profit from his teaching

as to follow faithfully in the footsteps of Christ.

Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.