Tag: humilty
The Litany of Humility
The litany of humility, for private devotions, is a moving prayer that can bring us closer to Christ. Do you worry constantly about what others think of you? Do you feel empty or frustrated if you’re not the center of attention? The litany of humility asks for our Lord’s assistance in humbly following in His… Read More ›
Have the Courage to Let Things Go
One of the chief obstacles to the perfection of selfless charity, is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a brilliant success in our own eyes and in the eyes of other men. We can only get rid of this anxiety by being content to miss something in almost everything… Read More ›
Keeping the Commandments
If a man does not possess great humility in his heart and in his body and does not use moderation in all things and submit to reproval and constrain himself in everything and keep his death before him day after day and renunciation of the material world and renunciation of all fleshly things, he cannot… Read More ›
Pyoterius is Taught Humility
St. Basil told the story of a virgin living in a monastery who pretended to be an idiot possessed of a demon, and was considered by everybody to be so misguided that no-one would even eat with her. Her chosen way of life was to be found always in the kitchen, where she carried out… Read More ›
Macarius on Humility
Abba Macarius told this tale about himself, “When I was a young man in my cell in Egypt, they took me and made me the cleric for the village. But I didn’t want that and fled to another neighborhood. There I was joined by a devout secular who shared with me the labor of the… Read More ›